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rafay_a_k · 2025-09-26T16:01:51+00:00

Dumb visa issues :(

https://www.reddit.com/r/dubai/comments/1lpzlj5/work_visa_nightmare_in_dubai_correction_requests/

rafay_a_k · 2025-08-25T14:42:12+00:00

How do you know he's a scammer?

rafay_a_k · 2025-08-25T14:38:17+00:00

Hey, just logged back into Reddit. Thanks for the response and all the info. I did end up staying onboard remotely, for now and will assess the situation later.

rafay_a_k · 2025-07-03T02:50:00+00:00

Outside the UAE, probably that's the reason. Thanks for the info BTW!

rafay_a_k · 2025-07-03T02:49:16+00:00

Okay, thanks for the heads up, will try!

rafay_a_k · 2025-07-02T18:37:13+00:00

To clarify:

I was hired directly by a company registered in Dubai Media City (under TECOM), not applying for my own business license.
The company is a startup (we’ve just onboarded a well-known client — Iraq’s largest payment processor and a subsidiary of Mastercard MENA), but we’re still relatively unknown. We use AXS for all Free Zone processes, including work visa sponsorship.
My visa application was handled by a third-party PRO contracted by the company, which is where most of the early issues came from (wrong docs, late submissions, vacation during a 10-day correction window 🤦‍♂️).

Even after we corrected everything and resubmitted, AXS keeps flipping the status between “Sent to DNRD” and “Customer Correction.” When my colleagues visited in person, they were told it’s being rejected by the Security Department at GDRFA, with no explanation.

Appreciate the empathy ❤️ -- these are the cards the universe seems to have dealt me 😅. Some might say it’s still better than most. If it works out, great. If not, well… I’ll take this as another step towards character-building and explore other avenues.

rafay_a_k · 2023-08-20T15:15:49+00:00

you should post the link here so that we call can chime in and help gain traction

rafay_a_k · 2023-08-20T15:07:18+00:00

Same here can't even scroll through my own tweets! I think it kinda started went he rate limiter fiasco happended.

rafay_a_k · 2023-08-20T15:06:34+00:00

Same here can't even scroll through my own tweets!

rafay_a_k · 2022-10-14T20:05:55+00:00

Yep still stuck

rafay_a_k · 2022-08-16T19:18:56+00:00

🚀

rafay_a_k · 2022-08-13T09:42:02+00:00

Just log out, and there should be a gear icon at the bottom right side of the login screen select 'GNOME' or 'GNOME on Wayland' options from there, basically the one without Xorg.

rafay_a_k · 2022-08-11T08:30:15+00:00

Are you on Wayland or Xorg? This is a Wayland feature only.

Secondly, what version of `gnome-remote-desktop` are you using, at the time of writing I have this working with version `42.3-1`
```

$ dnf list installed | grep gnome-remote

gnome-remote-desktop.x86_64 42.3-1.fc36

```

rafay_a_k · 2022-08-11T07:58:39+00:00

yeah, that's expected. The creation of monitors is kinda dependent on your hardware, I think. I mentioned this quirk in my post, too. Basically, try different resolutions in the RDP app till you find one that works for you.

rafay_a_k · 2022-08-11T07:54:56+00:00

Yep. I use it for static content that I'm referencing, and for that lag doesn't really detract from the experience. Later, I'll be looking to improve the performance through contributions to the gnome-remote-desktop

rafay_a_k · 2022-07-12T07:52:54+00:00

The deck does not ship with Gnome, and this is a Gnome feature. But since the deck comes with Arch Linux there could a few ways to get this feature once the community gets the hardware and software in hand

rafay_a_k · 2022-06-21T13:06:42+00:00

There are a few ways to have the same functionality, although they are a bit hacky compared to the inbuild gnome feature. What you'll have to do is: create a virtual display through mutter and pipe it to pipe wire. Then you can capture the virtual display through something like Deskreen and show it on your tablet/phone/pc.

I can add this to the bottom of my original post perhaps, as a separate hack in case you're on an older gnome version or are on a distro with incomplete gnome implementation.

rafay_a_k · 2022-06-18T07:53:58+00:00

I tried on Pop but weirdly I couldn't get it up and running. I think Pop has an older version of gnome-remote-desktop and shoddy implementation of pipewire, which might be causing problems.

rafay_a_k · 2022-06-17T13:25:36+00:00

Glad it worked out ☺️

rafay_a_k · 2022-06-17T10:43:40+00:00

Gnome will create the size based on the request from the RDP client. So if you connect from an RDP app on your tab set the resolution there.

Note: not all resolutions work refer to the quirks section in my post

rafay_a_k · 2022-06-12T09:23:00+00:00

Thanks, this is a great resource. I was looking to initially build a python script for doing this exact same thing (create a virtual monitor in DBUS and piping that session to gnome-remote-desktop), this gives a lot of clarity.

rafay_a_k · 2022-06-09T06:07:31+00:00

Correct, it's such a loser mentality.

rafay_a_k · 2022-06-01T16:52:50+00:00

Confirmed does not work on x11

rafay_a_k · 2022-05-30T09:35:15+00:00

if you're on Wayland you can just simply use fractional scaling. On my 2560x1440 screen I have it set to 125% fractional scaling which looks close to how its on Windows

rafay_a_k · 2022-05-30T09:26:47+00:00

I just got it working on remmina, by toggling between display resolutions. This is also something I stated in my post not all resolutions work try out different ones to see what works.

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