Enabling Gnome Remote Desktop in 24.11

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What is the correct way to enable gnome remote desktop in 24.11?

By this I mean, from the Sharing page under settings there should be a remote desktop section. It is easy to find in Ubuntu (perhaps this feature is unique to ubuntu and not present in gnome itself?)

I have tried

services.gnome.gnome-remote-desktop.enable = true;

which did not seem to do anything at all.

I know the other option is xrdp which I have not tried yet but my previous experience with this is that it needs the user to be logged out in order to work. I’m presently looking for more or a screen sharing/control feature like that available in Ubuntu.

If this feature does not exist in Nixos, is there a way to do screen sharing with RDP in a similar fashion?

Ultimately I’d like to be able to log into a server whether it is either logged in or not. If I understand correctly this could be done by the regular gnome remote desktop with xrdp on another port for when it is not logged in.

Any tips appreciated.

Thanks

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Looks like this is a bug: GNOME Settings no longer shows the Remote Desktop settings · Issue #361163 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Ah, this explains why it jumped to that tab when I search for remote. I didn’t consider that it wasn’t my own incompetence. I’ll keep an eye on the bug as it seems a pretty big one and will hopefully be sorted. It’s not too urgent for me just now fortunately

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maybe these

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There’s a thread here from 5 months ago with some more info. It helped me, but not enough. After some trial and error I have the server running, but when connecting Remmina I get a black window for a couple of seconds and then it exits/fails.

I see I had working remote desktop back in NixOS 22.11: Remmina client to GNOME remote desktop server (RDP) results in black screen · Issue #238800 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub.