📺 VDI Service / 🖥️ Remote Desktop in Browser, etc. ¶

This service allows to use the users desktop after login on a secure server similar to the webdav service.

Service for Loginctl linger ¶

user-headless.service

[Unit]
Description=Sway - Wayland Window Manager Headless
# technically not needed
ConditionUser=youruser
ConditionHost=vdi

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sway
Restart=always
Environment="XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/%U"
Environment="WLR_BACKENDS=headless"
Environment="WLR_RENDERER_ALLOW_SOFTWARE=1"
Environment="WLR_RENDERER=pixman"
Environment="WLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICES=1"
WorkingDirectory=~
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=journal

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Save this for the user in .config/systemd/user

then enable on vdi server with systemctl --user enable user-headless.service

on the server for this user enable loginctl linger so a user session starts on reboot:

root@vdi:~# loginctl enable-linger youruser

That's it!

Headless Sway config ¶

This config will be loaded by extending my base sway config not shown here but has this line to include the current running host:

###  💻 Machine-spec configs ###

    # Needs to run before waybar to catch all custom vars
    include "~/.config/sway/`hostname -f`/config"

.config/sway/vdi.domain.tld/config

### Only 1 virtual output! ###

###       🖥️ Outputs 🖥️      ###

    ### HEADLESS OUTPUTS ###
    # you cannot rename the output! It will be HEADLESS-x

    # 📳 HEADLESS for VDI (1920x1200)

            exec swaymsg create_output
            output HEADLESS-1 resolution 1920x1200 position 0 0 scale 1
            exec_always wayvnc -S $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayvncctl1 -o HEADLESS-1 0.0.0.0 5900

### 🖋️ Workspace 2 Output 🖥️ ###

    workspace 1 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 2 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 3 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 4 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 5 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 6 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 7 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 8 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 9 output HEADLESS-0
    workspace 10 output HEADLESS-0

###       🖼️ Wallpapers      ###

###      🧑🏼‍💻 Applications     ###

    set $browser firefox
    set $mailreader thunderbird
    set $codeide    codium
    set $filebrowser thunar

###      🎨 Layout Stuff     ###

    # Golden Ratio resize - not needed in machine anymore, ppt in user
    # bindsym $mod+g resize set width 618px resize set height 494x

exec_always ~/mediathekviewLoop.sh

Security ¶

This listens on 0.0.0.0 so 0 security at testing!