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Re:Window System X (1984) by drzaiusapelord on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:45AM (#29964907)
VNC outperforms it, which is saying a lot since VNC is terrible. Remote x apps were always this selling point in linux culture and I always thought I was doing something wrong because they were so incredibly slow until I realized its the protocol that's just slow.
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Re:Window System X (1984) by glandium on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:55AM (#29964955)
It was fine until apps ended up doing everything on their end and push pixmaps to the X server. Back in the xaw and motif days, it was fine.
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Re:Window System X (1984) by kaba0 on Monday January 17, 2022 @05:08AM (#29965034)
Well yeah, but then you could just as well use an ncurses app through ssh for the same “experience”
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