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> SSHing into a server and launching a small GUI tool is still dead. They are working on native support for that via PipeWire. For the time being you can still
by jhasse 7y ago
> SSHing into a server and launching a small GUI tool is still dead.
They are working on native support for that via PipeWire. For the time being you can still do that with Xwayland.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoPipeWire is video streaming, not remote rendering. They're assuming a rack of GPUs in the datacenter and a virtual circuit dedicated to me, but in reality I have a congested link and one GPU attached to my display.
- vardump 7y agoThe question is, which is more data. Rendered result or the data to do the rendering. If the rendered result is lighter, then a video stream makes perfect sense. If sending the data over to render is lighter, there's still one more issue: that GPUs are still not interchangeable, and the server hosting the application needs to have the necessary information about all the possible GPUs, their quirks and limitations. And you might still get inconsistent results at various clients. My personal guess is that the data to render is a lot more than data the required to do video streaming. So much depends on doing CPU rendering directly to textures. Although more and more is moving to GPU, so...
- Dylan16807 7y agoX forwarding is pretty awful over congested links and high-latency links in my experience. And from what I've seen if a program has even a medium-low level of graphical intensity it's not going to interact well with X forwarding. So anything that previously worked, should still work without a GPU.