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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by pjc50 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:20AM (#24199720)
Solution: X11-over-websockets with display in Javascript.

(Actually now wondering whether this nonsense already exists?)

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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by cycloptic on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:24AM (#24199793)
Xpra has a way to do this: https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Clients/HTML5

There's a similar thing for Wayland too: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield

And GTK has yet another way to do this built-in, that uses its own protocol: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html

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