Anydesk remote server display not supported e.g Wayland

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I’m trying to set up a remote connection for two Ubuntu 21.10 computers. The connection is constantly interrupted, a message appears that the display of the remote server is not supported by Wayland in AnyDesk (display_server_not_supported). How to resolve this error?

The problem you describe occurs to many users of Linux products. The error appears due to a conflict between the AnyDesk program and the Wayland protocol.

The first option to troubleshoot AnyDesk connection problems is to choose a clean launch of Ubuntu without Wayland when entering the operating system before entering the password.

The second option is to edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf as root. Make the following changes to this file:

[daemon]

# Enabling automatic login

AutomaticLoginEnable=true

AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME

Replace USERNAME with the autologin username. Save the changes and reboot the system, after that the display_server_not_supported error should disappear.