Remote display server is not supported (e.g Wayland)

Rocky Linux General
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Good Evening team,

I have installed Anydesk Remote Desktop Application on my system Running on Rocky Linux 9. I wanted to remotely access my friend who is running on CentOS-Stream-8.

However, I get an error “Remote display server is not supported (e.g Wayland)”

Doing a simple google search, I see an article that states that I can edit the **/etc/gdm/custom.conf
** configuration file and making the following changes.

GDM configuration storage

[daemon]

Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg

WaylandEnable=false

[security]

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

[debug]

Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging

Enable=true

am then to restart my server.

This did not solve my problem. PLease help me.

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I know, but nearly all these articles are either out-of-date, or not applicable to Rocky. This config change was originally to foce xorg, but pure xorg is deprecated now.

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Is there any work around ?

Please advise.

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AnyDesk need to support Wayland basically: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnyDesk/comments/i6gchv/so_anydesk_doesnt_support_wayland/

Sooner or later if they don’t take action, and more distros are on Wayland than Xorg, then they will have problems because nobody will use the product. I use NoMachine like mentioned in the link, works great.

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Try logging in with one of the other options (no Wayland). I use Anydesk and had the same problem logging in with Wayland. I have five (or six) log in options on my RL 9 installation.

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@gerry666uk @iwalker @tht
Team,

I added the following line to the configuration file /etc/gdm/custom.conf on both the Rocky Linux 9 and CentOS-8-Stream.

WaylandEnable=false
AutomaticLoginEnable = true
AutomaticLogin = <my_user_name>

This seems to work for me as I was able to remotely connect to the colleague.

I am not sure if this is the proper way to do it, but it worked.

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I forgot to include that a system restart is needed for the configurations to take effect.

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Thank you for this .

It also worked for me .

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