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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: killing X11
Date: 24 Jun 2025 12:13:37 GMT
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:56:23 +0100, Theo wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:08:51 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
>> 
>> > People still use it because Wayland lacks certain functionality like
>> > network transparency (you can run X11 apps on another networked
>> > machine).
>> 
>> But if you lose the network connection, all those remote apps die.
>> 
>> Better to use something like VNC or RDP, where the apps don’t even know
>> the user is at the other end of a network connection. That way you can
>> disconnect and reconnect from the same or different machine, and
>> continue using the desktop session without interruption.
> 
> X2go does that for X.  It works much better than VNC/RDP because each
> window is a window on your local machine, rather than everything being
> constrained to a rectangular window.

The project is abandones as of last month.



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