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> No, I'd say X11 wasn't designed to be run on the network That's very wrong, the whole point was to run over the network. It worked exceedingly well even in
by jjav 3y ago
> No, I'd say X11 wasn't designed to be run on the network
That's very wrong, the whole point was to run over the network.
It worked exceedingly well even in the earliest 90s (modulo bandwidth expectations of the time) and continues to work wonderfully 30+ years later.
- bitwize 3y agoNo, it doesn't, it works like shit because that's not how modern apps work anymore. Modern apps draw all their UI client-side onto a surface which is then sent to X for display. IF ONLY we had a windowing system that was based around simply compositing together the various surfaces that the apps draw into a complete image of the desktop. Since this is a step away from the complexity of X, we could give it a name starting with W...
- jjav 3y ago> No, it doesn't, it works like shit because that's not how modern apps work anymore. Don't know what to tell you, your experience is different. Many of my computers are on a rack and I run everything on them over X displaying to my desktop. Works just fine.
- bitwize 3y agoTry running Firefox over your networked X connection. Go ahead, I'll wait. Literally, I'll wait.