Or, take the hint. Close AnyDesk, open a terminal, and fix the problem the way the machine wants you to: without a mouse.
The days of assuming you can always grab the framebuffer are ending. Until the remote desktop tools catch up (Rustdesk, for example, handles Wayland better), you have two choices: downgrade your security (X11) or trick your hardware (dummy plugs).
Enter Wayland. Wayland was built for security and smooth rendering. Each application is a fortress. One application cannot see the pixels of another unless explicitly allowed. anydesk display_server_not_supported
Instead, you get a grey box. A cold, mechanical error stares back at you: .
The operating system reads it as: "The protocol used to draw the windows is incompatible with the capture method." Or, take the hint
Have you beaten this error with a weird workaround? Let me know in the comments.
For decades, remote desktop was simple because the OS didn't care who was looking at the pixels. Wayland, increased security sandboxing, and headless GPU power management are all good things for security and efficiency. But they break the old model of screen scraping. Until the remote desktop tools catch up (Rustdesk,
AnyDesk isn't crashing. It’s looking at your graphics stack and saying, "I don't speak that dialect." If you are on Linux, 99% of the time, this error is due to Wayland .