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> These days a significant number of X11 apps just render _everything_ "server-side" as bitmaps and then send them over the wire to the client to composite them
by testermelon 4y ago
> These days a significant number of X11 apps just render _everything_ "server-side" as bitmaps and then send them over the wire to the client to composite them.
Inferring from the quotation, I take it you mean application server-side (instead of display server-side)? Just confirming.
- gunapologist99 4y agoExactly. If GP doesn't even know how X11 works, then the opinion probably shouldn't carry a lot of weight. The "server" in X11 is the display that's sitting in front of you, not the application running on a remote workstation.