Does GSConnect support Virtual monitor

[nose-gnome]

I was looking at my desktop which runs KDE with KDEConnect, when I noticed that I could pair it with my laptop which runs gnome with GSConnect.

I paired and noticed that on my desktop it lists a plugin called "Virtual Monitor". I was wondering if GSConnect supports being a virtual monitor, as I couldn't find the option on my laptop, and couldn't find the button to actually start using it as a virtual monitor

[andyholmes]

There is no support for this plugin in GSConnect, sorry. As far as I know, no one has planned to implement it yet.

[ferdnyc]

If it helps any, the most recent commit messsage for that plugin in the kdeconnect-kde repository (the one for the desktop version of KDEConnect), from just a week ago, is:

Fixed virtualmonitorplugin url generation

BUG: 485830

The current implementation of the plugin is severly broken.

1. The generated URL links to the localhost
2. The port is not set

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The URL is now generated on the request receiving side, not send in the request.
This allows finding a valid IP address.

Furthermore, I changed the protocol by splitting it up. This could become useful, if we ever want to support other rdp protocols/platforms.

Note: This is a breaking change, but the current implementation is not working at all.. so it does not actually break something.

So it's debatable whether kdeconnect even supports Virtual Monitor, really. The plugin is apparently in an... "evolving" state.

[ferdnyc]

I decided to try and see if we could just use krfb-virtualmonitor to implement this, same as kdeconnectd does. Running it on my GNOME 46 / Fedora 40 VM to export the display seemed to work fine, but it immediately crashed the moment I connected vncviewer to it from the host (Fedora 39) system. 👎