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Did they invent X11 Forwarding over the network?

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Btw. when we get wayland forwarding over Network?

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Btw. when we get wayland forwarding over Network?

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/c/foundthenvidiauser

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Unlike X11, Wayland was never intended to be network transparent. As others say, solutions like waypipe and more tradionally RDP and VNC exist.

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Exactly. We won’t. We’ll get specialized video stream over network. I’m not happy about this regression. I understand that was a willing sacrifice to achieve better local performance, but I’m not sure it was worth it.

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36 points

waypipe exists, but it’s still not perfect.

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12 points

Never heard about this. Thx.

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Neither was X11 so it’s in good company

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10 points

Yes, the ssh -X flag forwards it.

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I doubt it’s nearly as secure as OpenSSH though.

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it goes through an SSH tunnel

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X11 can render individual windows (Xclients) through the network on another Xserver since decades. With XPRA you can even buffer them, to move them from one Xserver to another or make sure they survive network disconnect. It’s very cool, but not widely used.

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I use Arch btw


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