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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by orangeboats on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:14AM (#40156013)
Wayland does have network transparency, it's called waypipe.

But caveats apply: applications which use the GPU are network translucent. You'd need VNC or other forms of streaming for that.

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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by Vilian on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:25AM (#40156097)
i didn't find that mentioned on waypipe, could you link a issue that mention that?
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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by orangeboats on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:42AM (#40156223)
It's an inherent limitation of any network transparent windowing protocols.
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