Re-enable Animations With RDP Connection

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Hi all,

So I’ve noticed that by default animations are disabled when a remote desktop session is active.

Is there a way to re-enable them?

I understand that this is done by design to minimise redraws over the network, but for my use case this shouldn’t be an issue.

My system is running Ubuntu 25.04 with Gnome 48.

Thanks in advance!

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This is hardcoded as shown below. From grd-session.c#L1607-1609.

  g_variant_builder_add (&properties_builder, "{sv}",
                         "disable-animations",
                         g_variant_new_boolean (TRUE));

To enable animations above code needs to modified and recompiled.

Refer https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/issues/124.

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Thank you so much.

Hopefully this will be changed sometime in the future to either be user configurable, or dynamically set by network conditions etc as mentioned in the GitLab discussion.

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