Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)

Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by welterde on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:56AM (#24200231)

NX partially solves the problem that applications don't use the X primitives anymore and are way to chatty with the X server (which leads to many unnecessary roundtrips which is the real killer for remote X11). Old applications work great even without NX or any hacks.. just anything modern is quite sluggish.

And it's less about the actual protocol, but the desired behavior. I want to launch applications on a remote machine and have the windows appear on my local machine as if I was running them locally. And so far there is nothing except X11 that can really do that..

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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by cycloptic on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:41PM (#24200871)

>And so far there is nothing except X11 that can really do that.

In terms of Wayland there is Waypipe. And I believe Citrix has been doing this forever on Windows, although I've never used their products.

In my opinion Xorg by itself can't really do it correctly, I find running remote clients to be basically unusable without Xpra. And in order to really use that effectively, you have to be running all your clients within Xpra from the start.

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