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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: killing X11
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:10:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote at 11:56 this Tuesday (GMT):
> 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.
>
> Theo


Very cool program, thanks!
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