VPN and other Remote access Apps in hyprland

Issues & Assistance Hyprland
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Hello,
I am revisiting Garuda and I think its here to stay this time, I am really enjoying the hyprland environment, several years back wasn’t really a fan of window managers. I think Garuda helped me be more open to trying it out. I think it works out great at home, and not really an issue but I have noticed some apps I use for work don’t really work but its okay since I have work arounds. When testing my home computer for remote work I noticed teamviewer and forticlient-vpn are the only apps that dont work, I can still use teamviewer’s web version on the browser so no big deal and using that I dont really need the VPN. I was only curious if anyone has had a similar experience with particular apps not working like those or other apps? not looking to troubleshoot but just wondering if that is normal for WMs like hyprland?

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I’m going to say “yes”, I have experience with apps not working correctly on every WM, every DE, every distro, even every operating system that I have ever tried.

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I probably should have been more specific, so have you used VPN on window managers?

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Yes, I regularly use a VPN on window managers.

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For me too, there some softwares sometimes do weird things, specially I have noticed it for kde apps like kdenlive, and even my fav office softwares like only office, but the thing is that you 99% of the time find some workaround or solution for making it work, specially in WMs as this thing from head to toe is known by you , and you can play with their configs to make your needed softwares to work but can’t say the same things for DE’s sometimes as you can be a little bit clueless there , or maybe it was just for me :eyes:

Whatever, the conclusion is that we all face it, and half of the time solutions are straight forward . :slightly_smiling_face:

Even though I have used a little bit proton VPN, but I don’t use VPN that much BTW… :sweat_smile:

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Thanks for your feedback, yeah its not a total loss for me and I can still be productive with workarounds. I have Garuda at home so it is primarily my home computer and I’m good with that. I was just curious about anyone else’s experiences with vpn type apps. I was using fortclient-vpn in particular.