Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
by ajsnigrutin on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:39AM
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> It's also rather complicated to set-up on the server side (xauth, magic cookie, etc).
you mean "ssh -Y user@host..."?
No, that is the client side. I went back and looked at the documentation, I was wrong and conflated two ways of doing it:
- 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 would be the client side
To me, it’s been a while since 1Mbps was “quite a bit of bandwidth”, even for WAN connections.
Outside of major metros, in the US a lot of towns only offer up to 5Mbps down, and only then if you pay out the nose. Not sure if it matters for X forwarding, but upload caps are also ridiculously low even on otherwise reasonable connections.
Pretty much this. With 5 Mbps down on ADSL, you can expect 300 to 500 kbps up. It can be hard to remote connect home under those conditions.
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.