rustdesk 6feb49f060 wayland: say which step of the portal handshake failed
The XDG portal handshake is four sequential requests, and every way it can end
badly -- the user declining, nobody answering, the portal being absent or
ending it or dying mid-handshake, the stream list coming back empty -- left
`request_remote_desktop` through one `bail!` carrying one string.
`map_err_scrap` then guessed a cause by looking for "dbus" or "pipewire" in
that string. Since that string always mentions "PipeWire library", a decline
and a three-minute timeout both came out as "Wayland requires higher version of
linux distro. Please try X11 desktop or change your OS." On Ubuntu 21+, where
the mapping passes the text through untouched, they came out as raw English
pointing at an unrelated GitHub issue.

The response code and the D-Bus error were in hand at the moment of failure and
were being dropped: `handle_response` collapsed all of it into one
`AtomicBool`. Record it instead, tagged with the stage that produced it, and
let the app side look the tag up. `map_err_scrap` gains one leading branch;
anything untagged -- which is everything the capture loop reports -- takes the
existing path unchanged.

The tag decides between five new keys and the existing `xdp-portal-unavailable`:

- A decline, nobody answering, the portal ending the request with its response
  code, an empty stream list, and a missing GStreamer element each get their
  own message. Sentence-case English, so a peer that has never heard of them
  falls back to the key and still reads as a sentence rather than showing a
  slug like `x11 expected`.
- Everything else is the portal failing to deliver, which is what
  `xdp-portal-unavailable` already says -- it is already translated everywhere
  and carries the one remedy a user can act on, `systemctl --user restart
  xdg-desktop-portal`. The D-Bus error name and message go to the log.
- The Ubuntu-before-21 branch keeps every outcome that says something about the
  machine and yields the two that say what a person did.

`fill_displays` needs the tag resolved at its own call site: it opens a second
portal session for cursor-based display disambiguation, and its error returns
straight up `check_init` without passing through `map_err_scrap`, so a tag
would otherwise reach the peer verbatim.

Two existing paths change, both necessarily:

- `check_init` no longer wraps `Capturer::new` in `with_context`. The peer is
  shown `format!("{}", err)` (connection.rs), which renders only the outermost
  layer, so that context was replacing the mapped code with "Failed to create
  capturer for display 0".
- The `std::process::exit(-1)` on libdbus' no-reply text is now reached only by
  the capture loop, which is what that self-heal was written for. A no-reply
  during the handshake is tagged and reported instead. It is worth saying
  plainly what that branch did before: the portal proxy has a one-second
  timeout, so a portal slow to activate could take the whole service down.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dependencies

Desktop versions use Flutter or Sciter (deprecated) for GUI. This tutorial is for Sciter only, since it is easier and more friendly to start. Check out our CI for building the Flutter version.

Please download Sciter dynamic library yourself.

Windows | Linux | macOS

Raw Steps to build

  • Prepare your Rust development env and C++ build env

  • Install vcpkg, and set VCPKG_ROOT env variable correctly

    • Windows: vcpkg install libvpx:x64-windows-static libyuv:x64-windows-static opus:x64-windows-static aom:x64-windows-static
    • Linux/macOS: vcpkg install libvpx libyuv opus aom
  • run cargo run

Build

How to Build on Linux

Ubuntu 18 (Debian 10)

sudo apt install -y zip g++ gcc git curl wget nasm yasm libgtk-3-dev clang libxcb-randr0-dev libxdo-dev \
        libxfixes-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev cmake make \
        libclang-dev ninja-build libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

openSUSE Tumbleweed

sudo zypper install gcc-c++ git curl wget nasm yasm gcc gtk3-devel clang libxcb-devel libXfixes-devel cmake alsa-lib-devel gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel xdotool-devel

Fedora 28 (CentOS 8)

sudo yum -y install gcc-c++ git curl wget nasm yasm gcc gtk3-devel clang libxcb-devel libxdo-devel libXfixes-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel cmake alsa-lib-devel gstreamer1-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel

Arch (Manjaro)

sudo pacman -Syu --needed unzip git cmake gcc curl wget yasm nasm zip make pkg-config clang gtk3 xdotool libxcb libxfixes alsa-lib pipewire

Install vcpkg

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
cd vcpkg
git checkout 2023.04.15
cd ..
vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
export VCPKG_ROOT=$HOME/vcpkg
vcpkg/vcpkg install libvpx libyuv opus aom

Fix libvpx (For Fedora)

cd vcpkg/buildtrees/libvpx/src
cd *
./configure
sed -i 's/CFLAGS+=-I/CFLAGS+=-fPIC -I/g' Makefile
sed -i 's/CXXFLAGS+=-I/CXXFLAGS+=-fPIC -I/g' Makefile
make
cp libvpx.a $HOME/vcpkg/installed/x64-linux/lib/
cd

Build

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk
cd rustdesk
mkdir -p target/debug
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/master/bin.lnx/x64/libsciter-gtk.so
mv libsciter-gtk.so target/debug
VCPKG_ROOT=$HOME/vcpkg cargo run

How to build with Docker

Begin by cloning the repository and building the Docker container:

git clone https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk
cd rustdesk
git submodule update --init --recursive
docker build -t "rustdesk-builder" .

Then, each time you need to build the application, run the following command:

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/home/user/rustdesk -v rustdesk-git-cache:/home/user/.cargo/git -v rustdesk-registry-cache:/home/user/.cargo/registry -e PUID="$(id -u)" -e PGID="$(id -g)" rustdesk-builder

Note that the first build may take longer before dependencies are cached, subsequent builds will be faster. Additionally, if you need to specify different arguments to the build command, you may do so at the end of the command in the <OPTIONAL-ARGS> position. For instance, if you wanted to build an optimized release version, you would run the command above followed by --release. The resulting executable will be available in the target folder on your system, and can be run with:

target/debug/rustdesk

Or, if you're running a release executable:

target/release/rustdesk

Please ensure that you run these commands from the root of the RustDesk repository, or the application may not find the required resources. Also note that other cargo subcommands such as install or run are not currently supported via this method as they would install or run the program inside the container instead of the host.

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