It works flawlessly if you have a reasonable amount of bandwidth and reasonable latency.
Sure, it doesn’t work over dial-up.
That's the point, X's claimed advantages here long since stopped existing, and nobody noticed because the "inferior" approach is perfectly fine with modern internet connectivity.
It's also rather complicated to set-up on the server side (xauth, magic cookie, etc).
waypipe, on the other hand, was a breeze to use, even though it's very young. I tried with Firefox and 500Mbps of upload capacity, it worked fine as long as the window wasn't too large.
you mean "ssh -Y user@host..."?
- X forwarding over SSH: this only requires changing X11Forwarding in OpenSSH sshd's config
- Plain X over network, which is secured with `xhost`, insecure, and needs transfering the magic cookie or other authentication information
So, not nearly as complex to setup as I recalled, though it's much simpler to run a nested wayland compositor (which waypipe does) than a X11 server (which xpra does). The difference between X11 and Wayland remote access thins when xpra is involved.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37157097/how-does-x11-au...
That should have been 500 kbps
That is entirely subjective no? Personally I think Motif is one of the pinnacles of GUI design.
Alas. That isn't the way the world has went, and it's extremely expensive to be weird.
And? Last time I checked, tunneling Wayland over a non-local SSH connection was slow as glass. Which is to say it didn't work at all.
Modern UIs could do with being a bit more like 1995. Most of my work is performance sensitive so the first thing that goes are all the desktop effects that try to barf pointless rainbows and glitter in my direction.