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.
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. 🙂
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.
@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.