I looked it up. Sway is Wayland-only. I would like to eventually support 
Wayland applications in TurboVNC, but that is a large undertaking that would 
require a lot of funding.

> On Sep 27, 2021, at 6:54 PM, joa...@verona.se wrote:
> 
> "'DRC' via TurboVNC User Discussion/Support"
> <turbovnc-users@googlegroups.com> writes:
> 
>> Does it require Wayland? If it doesn’t have an X11 backward compatibility 
>> mode, then it won’t work with TurboVNC.
> 
> It does have the xwayland compat layer.
> 
> Other x apps work under Sway with this compat layer, such as firefox.
> 
> For the moment I'm switching back to Gnome, which works, but isn't as
> convenient as i3/sway, when they work. The problem with i3 on this
> machine is that it doesnt handle hidpi very well, sway does handle hidpi
> but not turbovnc. Ah well...
> 
> 
>> 
>>>> On Sep 26, 2021, at 5:41 PM, joa...@verona.se wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying the, perhaps esoteric, window manager "sway". It's a tiling
>>> window manager like i3, but with wayland support.
>>> 
>>> The turbovnc client opens upp a big empty grey box on this
>>> configuration, which is odd.
>>> 
>>> I can switch between several wm:s on this machine, and turbovnc client
>>> works well in them: gnome 4.0, and i3.
>>> 
>>> Usually I connect like this:
>>> /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncviewer -ExtSSH=1 -Tunnel=1 tanaka:1
>>> 
>>> but it doesnt matter if i change the paramterers, I just get the big
>>> grey box all the time.
>>> 
>>> Some versions:
>>> turbovnc-2.2.80-20210923.x86_64
>>> Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four)
>>> 
>>> 
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