[Bug 1654864] Re: weston build with rdp backend

[John Moser]

The Debian update has been reverted because freerdp2 isn't in testing
and doesn't build everywhere.

Weston's RDP compositor back-end would make a number of things possible,
notably exposing a LightDM or GDM greeter on RDP.  This would allow HD
tablets and Netbooks to log in remotely, e.g. via the Android RDP
client, Windows RDP client, or FreeRDP.  Weston supports switching
backends without logging out, allowing attachment to the running
session, which means an appropriate greeter can supply VDI by switching
to a user's running session on login locally or over RDP.

One cannot overlook the advantages in cost, flexibility, and reduced
environmental footprint—thin clients include small computers drawing
under 1 watt average power—and an RDP compositor backend is a critical
component of such a feature.

Perhaps it would be best to specify a more-complete roadmap to Ubuntu
VDI with the resolution of this bug being a part of that.

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Title:
  weston build with rdp backend

Status in weston package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in weston package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Submitting a patch to build Weston with weston-rdp compositor.  This
  patch is against the Zesty source package and adds a weston-rdp-
  compositor package.

  This plus an Xwayland install and an additional script should help
  close #220005

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