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Realistically speaking, what matters is that openssh comes with X11 forwarding built-in. Somebody should go and provide equally seamless "Wayland forwarding".
by atq2119 4y ago
Realistically speaking, what matters is that openssh comes with X11 forwarding built-in.
Somebody should go and provide equally seamless "Wayland forwarding". That might end up looking more like VNC under the hood, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
- seba_dos1 4y agoWayland forwarding has been there for years now: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe Is it seamless enough for what you had in mind?
- aidenn0 4y agoI think GP was talking about how ssh has the -X and -Y flags for forwarding X, but you need to do something like -L XXXX:localhost:YYYY to ssh forward. TigerVNC (and some others) will do e.g. "-via foo@bar :1" which GP might not know, but is rather convenient. Xpra is still a better replacement for -X when launching a single application though.
- atq2119 4y agoYes, that's what I meant, and thanks, those are interesting points. My main use case is launching one-off visualization tools on a remote system that I'm ssh'd to anyway. ssh -X is hard to beat in terms of convenience for that use case, and e.g. a persistence setup would be overkill.
- pedrocr 4y agoFrom the linked waypipe page the usage is: waypipe ssh <user>@<server> <app> That will call ssh with the correct parameters on both sides and start the app. Seems just about perfect for what people want out of a remote solution that's not a full desktop.
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