#16220·rustdesk

Wayland DRM/KMS direct capture without portal consent (true unattended remote access) missing for Flatpak and Fedora `.rpm` for GNU/Linux

Author: heyakyraCreated Sep 14, 2026Updated Sep 14, 2026
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Bug Description

True unattended access for Wayland lands in a completely separate .deb build for Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions, but distro-agnostic Flatpak or even just .rpm builds for Fedora (which switched to Wayland first) were excluded. These should be enabled in the nightly 1.5.0 builds, but could be gated behind a command-line launch flag if necessary. Filing here as:

fxd0h commented on Sep 13:

an issue is the right place to ask for it.

How to Reproduce

  1. Get excited about true unatteded remote access no Wayland
  2. Head to the nightly builds
  3. Grab the Flatpak (or .rpm) and install
  4. Disappointment, albeit temporary

Expected Behavior

Unattended remote access should at least be able to test unattended access even if it means launching with a command-line flag to enable the service, plus any extra instructions required for Flatpak

Operating system(s) on local (controlling) side and remote (controlled) side

Fedora Silverblue → Fedora Silverblue

RustDesk Version(s) on local (controlling) side and remote (controlled) side

1.5.0

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Additional Context

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