Authorize xdg-portal requests remotely | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

glossy coral Jun 30, 2023, 5:41 PM

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I'm on vacation (read: no physical access) and I want to access my Wayland KDE machine remotely per VNC but I think krfb requires me to authorize a xdg-portal request? Connecting to the VNC server per unattended password gives a black screen and I remember I needed to select the screen I wanted to share.

I have ssh access to the machine and I have sudo but I wasn't able to find a method to authorize myself from here.

Could somebody throw me a bone or a hack? I can't switch to X11 because my setup is made around Wayland and would require me to undo a lot of that work. I also frankly wouldn't know how to do this from here on the CLI.

An idea I had is to somehow capture the screen and accept the prompt by driving the cursor per CLI, but attempting to capture the screen per Spectacle also requires authorization.

Am I seriously SOL here?

glossy coral Jun 30, 2023, 6:10 PM

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While we're here:
Kernel: 6.3.9-arch1-1
Plasmashell: 5.27.6
krfb: 22.12.3-1 (downgraded due to other issues but I could bump it back to latest)

hoary summit Jun 30, 2023, 6:11 PM

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Wait why use vnc over ssh?

glossy coral Jun 30, 2023, 6:12 PM

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hoary summit Wait why use vnc over ssh?

Not over ssh, I have ssh access but the krfb VNC session gives a black screen since I can't select the screen to use in the xdg-portal prompt from ssh

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I access the VNC session per Tailscale but I don't believe this is a networking problem (since VNC, SSH, pings connect).

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