Bug 470281 - KRDC does not work under wayland because it misses wlfreerdp
Summary: KRDC does not work under wayland because it misses wlfreerdp
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: Packages User Edition (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Reported: 2023-05-26 10:05 UTC by John
Modified: 2024-05-20 13:19 UTC (History)
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Description John 2023-05-26 10:05:07 UTC 
SUMMARY
KRDC does not work under Wayland because it misses wlfreerdp.

According to c26 ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377911#c26 ) in bug 377911 this happens because neon is missing packages.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Log in to Plasma under Wayland
2. start KRDC
3. Try to connect to a windows machine using RDP

OBSERVED RESULT
You get a massage saying that wlfreerdp missing

EXPECTED RESULT
Should connect to the remote desktop...

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 5.27
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-42-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I've tried using freerdp-wayland package, but it still doesn't work
Comment 1 Malte S. Stretz 2023-10-13 15:31:32 UTC 
After I installed the freerdp2-wayland package (and uninstalled freerdp2-x11 but I don't know if that's required) it works for me in KRDC 23.08.2.

But that package is not in the Recommends list of the krdc package so it needed some guessing. krdc should at least recommend freerdp2-wayland (or even just depend on it).

Once it works KRDC shows the behaviour described in bug 475315.
Comment 2 François Bissey 2024-05-20 01:50:09 UTC 
I have the same issue in Gentoo, but it doesn't even work properly with freerdp-2. 
According to this Gentoo bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/930197 wlfreerdp is deprecated upstream and they recommend to use sdl-freerdp. It implies that krdc will have to move to stop using wlfreerdp sooner rather than later.
Comment 3 Malte S. Stretz 2024-05-20 13:19:20 UTC 
@François thanks for the info but could you please file a separate bug for that issue? This one is about the Neon packaging which works once the (now obsolete) missing package is installed.