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After this many years, I think the ambition to support remoting at the per-window level just isn't important. In practice I've actually found it outright confus
by munchbunny 8y ago
After this many years, I think the ambition to support remoting at the per-window level just isn't important. In practice I've actually found it outright confusing when I have two windows operating inside two separate environments, but they're both in the same visual container.
VNC/RDP work well enough, and SSH works well enough for when you don't need a GUI.
- exelius 8y agoI tend to agree. The original promise of remote X11 (server side compute and thin clients) is provided via web apps these days.
- vetinari 8y agoBoth RDP and Citrix do support publishing just the application, without desktop. It is actually pretty neat to have application, running somewhere in the server room, to be mixed with my local applications. Going even further, the remote applications can run each on different machine in the Citrix cluster, so it is possible to load balance on per-app basis.
- politician 8y agoDon't these solutions simply crop the desktop out? You used to be able to see the desktop behind the app if you resized the window rapidly.
- vetinari 8y agoI'm able to see flashes of background color, but not desktop. Start menu and other desktop widgets are unavailable, except the keyboard widget, which has support coded into the client.
- temac 8y agossh -X works well (enough) when you need a GUI.
- c256 8y agoThat only works if you’re running X11, not on Wayland (in case it was unclear; I was momentarily confused, so I’m posting.)