Anyone knows how to properly start a multiseat wayland with a desktop environment or window manager running? (mastodon.social)

submitted 6 months ago by talesofaprinny@mastodon.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Anyone knows how to properly start a multiseat wayland with a desktop environment or window manager running?

I just need simple stuff such as profile initialization of the user and if it's possible to just share the same discrete GPU across multiple seats?

The end result? I want to isolate my current user space from the gaming space where I can just connect using moonlight/sunshine. I want it all headless.

#linux #linuxgaming #wayland #x11 @linux_gaming

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[-] jac@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

You may be interested in a project called "wolf". Its goal is to run graphically accelerated containers using a Wayland compositor that uses gstreamer as the backend instead of a display. After that, wolf serves as your moonlight server. There are hoops to jump through if you're using Nvidia, and the software is very young. But I think it shows promise.

https://games-on-whales.github.io/wolf/stable/

I haven't tried it myself yet, if you give it a go, let me know how you get on. 🙂

[-] TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I've tried it and it went horribly. By default it doesn't stream your desktop, just some apps so I tried to change the config file according to their docs but made a mistake, now it's brokie. I deleted the config file and the entire /etc/wolf directory but it's still fricced. (I am on Mint and used podman-docker instead of real docker)

Before I broke it, I could open up a black screen which should in theory be a sign that it's still installing stuff in the container but I was too inpatient to find out.

I suppose the bottom line is that it's still in alpha. I might try it again with the help of their discord or something when I get time for it but idk when that will happen lol.

[-] talesofaprinny@mastodon.social 1 points 6 months ago

@jac Hey, thanks for sharing!

They have a lot of useful information.

cc mostly in case if you find it useful @Max_P wayland headless https://games-on-whales.github.io/wolf/stable/dev/wayland.html

https://games-on-whales.github.io/gow/monitor.html#_force_xorg_to_use_a_custom_edid

And a mention of custom EDID for a monitor to be registered huh . Guess I'll follow up on this as well eventually, less work setting things up and more things to learn.

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