Waypipe: a transparent Wayland proxy Manuel Stoeckl wayl at mstoeckl.com Sat Jun 29 02:13:03 UTC 2019 Previous message (by thread): [ANNOUNCE] libinput 1.13.4 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] For the last few weeks, I've been working on a program which can be used to transparently proxy Wayland clients over a network. (Like "ssh -X ...", except here it's "waypipe ssh ...".) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/ Waypipe needs to be run on both ends of a socket connection, with one instance acting as a Wayland server, and the other creating Wayland clients as needed. It emulates shared files between the different systems on each end of the connection, using twin file copies to quickly identify file changes. To determine how and when exactly to replicate and update a file, Waypipe parses the protocol messages that it forwards between the actual Wayland client and server that it has connected to. [Exact details are slightly more complicated.] It currently supports both shared-memory and DMABUFs, although there are still rough edges with the latter when it comes to layout modifiers and multiplanar/multibuffer images. Performance on a local network is acceptable for terminals and relatively static applications, although games are often unplayable due to FPS drop from the delay needed to send a screenful of data over the network. (There's a command line option for low latency h264 video encoding, but it only applies to linear-layout DMABUFs at the moment.) Waypipe has become stable and usable enough at this point that having more people testing it would be appreciated. I'm also still looking for feature requests, any applications which don't yet work correctly via Waypipe, and command line interface improvements. Questions, if you have any, would also be nice. #oslotos #oslotøs #os_lotos #linux #linuxserver #desktop #laptop #servers #softwaredeveloper #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #wayland #sanktpeterburg #kazan #moscow #krasnodar #rostov #ekb #samara (at Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport, Terminal D) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzU0H_PACTh/?igshid=2bpzzq4usc1d
