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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by Zren on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:41PM (#20308117)
After watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ

At 18m30, he mentions that everyone uses SHM and DRI2, which don't work over the network. He mentions X isn't "network transparent" anymore, it's "network capable". I'm not 100% sure what the difference is tbh.

At 40m10, he mentions that rendering on the "server" then compressing it to transfer over the network to display locally is basically VNC.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by anaphor on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:03PM (#20337076)
That's interesting. I didn't realize the SHM extension was used that widely. Do most GUI toolkits use it under the hood somehow, in order to render more efficiently?
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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by DonHopkins on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:52PM (#20313847)
Excellent talk! Thanks for the link.
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