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Re:Why Your Desktop Won't Be Running Mir/Wayland Anytime Soon by vsync on Saturday March 09, 2013 @12:51AM (#5347545)
X forwarding is just a tunnel for the normal X protocol, which is both higher-level and provides much more functionality than a raw pixel buffer.
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Re:Why Your Desktop Won't Be Running Mir/Wayland Anytime Soon by zanny on Saturday March 09, 2013 @04:40AM (#5347950)
What extra functionality is available in networked X that is not available over a VNC pipe?
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