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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by cycloptic on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:58PM (#24204843)
Thank you for those bugs. They seem to further the point that X11 is not network transparent, seeing as how the solution was for Qt to support two separate xcb backends, one for local rendering and one for remote rendering. And actually a third for local hardware rendering using GL.

I have no comment on NX, I've never used it.

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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by AshamedCaptain on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:12PM (#24204962)
Qt _needs_ a non-X11 backend, seeing that it runs on platforms where X11 is not prevalent. Network transparency is another story and not related whatsoever to this since even if you push bitmaps X11 is still technically network 'transparent' (the quotes are due to the increased bandwidth usage).
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