Gnome apps open in Wayland instead of remote SSH
If I have an open Wayland session on a Fedora machine and then I try to SSH into that machine and run an app over the SSH X proxy, it doesn't work. It launches the app on the Wayland session which is locked and not useful to anyone at the moment because it is miles away at home.
Why does this happen?
Is there a way to fix this without forcing the open session to close using loginctl?
Have you tried running Remmina on the remote end? If the remote is Fedora, it is a standard package.
Your remote machine is configured for running a wayland session and wayland is not network transparent. You can try forcing remote GUI applications to use X11. For gtk+ apps you set:
GDK_BACKEND=x11and for QT5 apps:QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcbon the remote machine. I am not sure if you need a full X11 session on the client side. Will the GUI appear inside XWayland on the client? Just try.@fcomida Well from my point of view the Gnome apps are buggy. How are they even determining they should run in Wayland? WAYLAND_DISPLAY is not set, neither are any XDG variables. As best I can tell they are abusing systemd user session which is ENTIRELY WRONG.
@Zan Lynx create a new user in the remote machine and ssh to that user account. Try logging in your local machine from a VT (Ctrl+Alt+F3), same user as the running graphical session, run a GUI app from there and see what happens.
I just tried to reproduce it and something extrem wired happend: I logged into a f29 sshd with a running wayland session with "ssh -Y user@" and all cli cmds are run locally, but the start of firefox gets redirected to my local machine, and nemo window gets opened on the remote server. Both is clearly not what to expect and entirely wrong. I will take this to bugzilla on my own.