X11 is still supported, but once Wayland becomes the default, I wonder how much love x11 will still get!? So long story short, I was wondering what kind of remote desktop sharing solution Gnome and Ubuntu are proposing for 22.04 and whether it works as well as x11vnc. But now, it looks like Ubuntu will make Wayland the default compositor in the upcoming 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) version. One of the problems that have plagued all attempts so far was the lack of a usable remote desktop solution. That’s a bit of a problem these days, as all Linux distributions that use the Gnome desktop, including Ubuntu, are trying very hard for years now to switch to the newer Wayland display server. As the name implies, x11vnc is based on the x11 display server.

And if nothing happens on the desktop, there is almost no data transmitted.

There are many VNC servers, but x11vnc is the best I have found so far, as it works well even under extremely severe bandwidth constraints, i.e., it can easily live with 1 Mbit/s in the uplink when using the highest compression scheme. For almost 10 years now, I’m using x11vnc to get GUI access on remote Ubuntu desktops. Desktop sharing is one of the essential things I do every day.

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