Description
Proof of concept of how to run headless remote desktop sessions.
Installation Instructions
Configuration can be done e.g. via a VT or via ssh.
Step 1: Configure a headless gnome-remote-desktop.
# Run the following commands as USER
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-remote-desktop/
openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -days 720 -nodes -x509 -subj /C=DE/ST=NONE/L=NONE/O=GNOME/CN=localhost -out ~/.local/share/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp.crt -keyout ~/.local/share/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp.key
grdctl --headless rdp set-tls-cert ~/.local/share/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp.crt
grdctl --headless rdp set-tls-key ~/.local/share/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp.key
grdctl --headless set-credentials USER PASSWORD # USER and PASSWORD doesn't need to match the username or password of the system
grdctl --headless rdp enable
systemctl --user enable gnome-remote-desktop-headless.service
Step 2: Launch a headless session
sudo systemctl start gnome-remote-session@USER.service
This will launch a whole session, by default GNOME Shell, as well as a RDP server.
The session lauched is retrieved from accountsservice. To change it without using GDM, run the following as USER:
gdbus call -y -d org.freedesktop.Accounts -m org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetSession -o /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User$UID gnome-classic
to change to gnome-classic. Available sessions can be seen in /usr/share/wayland-sessions. Only the ones with X-GDM-CanRunHeadless=true in the session desktop file can be run this way.
Active Releases
The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).
Release Architectures Repo Download Fedora 39 aarch64 (0)*, ppc64le (0)*, s390x (0)*, x86_64 (0)* Fedora 39 (0 downloads)* Total number of packages downloaded in the last seven days.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jadahl/headless-sessions