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> ssh -X is hardly "everything". It's damn close. How many apps do you exclusively use locally? A terminal emulator, maybe a web browser? There are engineers
by prodigal_erik 10y ago
> ssh -X is hardly "everything".
It's damn close. How many apps do you exclusively use locally? A terminal emulator, maybe a web browser?
There are engineers out there who are expected to never have work product on their laptop. The age of one computer per user ended a long time ago, and I'm worried how Wayland has been handwaving the normal use case.
- cyphar 10y ago> It's damn close. How many apps do you exclusively use locally? A terminal emulator, maybe a web browser? I mean, I don't use graphical apps enough to care -- ssh/mosh is good enough for me TBH. > The age of one computer per user ended a long time ago, and I'm worried how Wayland has been handwaving the normal use case. But it isn't. Implementing "-X" functionality into Wayland wouldn't make any sense -- you want the window manager to implement the forwarding because the window manager knows about the window you want to forward. The fact that X has this functionality is an accident of history. ssh -X is worse than VNC because at least VNC has some semblance of a sane protocol.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoIMHO a sane protocol sends command from the app to the GPU under my desk, rather than requiring every computer in the world to have a headless GPU and a fat enough pipe to stream pixels to my framebuffer. People keep saying some other part of Wayland will implement remoting. As far as I can tell nobody takes it seriously enough to work on it, and without remoting I can't understand why any non-gamer would try to use Wayland.