Waypipe

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Waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for gui-apps/waypipe Transparent network proxy for Wayland compositors

dmabuf	Use DMABUFs for data exchange and hardware decoding
ffmpeg	Link with ffmpeg to allow buffer displays using video streams
lz4	Enable support for lz4 compression (as implemented in app-arch/lz4)
systemtap	Enable SystemTap/DTrace tracing
test	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
vaapi	Enable Video Acceleration API for hardware decoding
zstd	Enable support for ZSTD compression

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask gui-apps/waypipe

Usage

To run a remote sway connection with Waypipe, use the following command:

user $waypipe ssh user@127.0.0.1 sway