I like the idea of X forwarding, but it doesn't work in real world anymore. As far as I know, it has to do many round-trips for everything. Launching something like LibreOffice Writer is funny, it will be loading bit by bit, icon by icon for several minutes. It was only usable for me on < 1ms network.
Unlike say VNC, it opens windows locally.
And now there's Waypipe which does the same thing, but for Wayland. And it actually works! Even better than VNC.
BUT, it doesn't work for X programs. It can somewhat work with rootful Xwayland... but that's basically a desktop for X-only programs.
Welp, I just wanted to check something on the remote desktop, so I launched VNC, and WOAH, I didn't expect to get XFCE invasion.
I didn't know XFCE can do Wayland now.
Anyway, this cursed thing does actually work pretty fine. xfce4-session works with Waypipe, good to know.
Sorry about my Waypipe misunderstanding.
vncserver I configured that way, so of course. I just didn't expect it to connect to Wayland.
It does work over Waypipe. You can even see in my screenshot that on the remote machine it shows Waypipe as the WM.
The remote is running Debian 13, with multi-user.target set as default target to keep the GUI from starting. XFCE version is 4.20.1.