Configuring remote desktop access with gnome-remote-desktop

Thanks both for replying. Not sure if it changes things but I’m using the newest stable version of gnome with gdm and wayland + I do have a working screen but I also want to go remote some times. What finally ended up working for me was this (found a guide for Fedora on the same issue):

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
     pkgs.gnome.gnome-remote-desktop
  ];
services.gnome.gnome-remote-desktop.enable = true; #(would not want to work without this)

and this

sudo systemctl restart gnome-remote-desktop.service
sudo grdctl --system rdp enable

sudo rm -rf ~gnome-remote-desktop/rdp-tls*
sudo -u gnome-remote-desktop winpr-makecert     -silent -rdp -path ~gnome-remote-desktop rdp-tls

sudo grdctl --system rdp set-tls-key /var/lib/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp-tls.key
sudo grdctl --system rdp set-tls-cert /var/lib/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp-tls.crt

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now gnome-remote-desktop.service
sudo grdctl --system rdp set-credentials "name" "password"

sudo systemctl restart gnome-remote-desktop.service
sudo systemctl status gnome-remote-desktop.service```
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