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Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland
New submitter Skrapion writes "One month ago, an independent developer submitted patches to the Wayland's Weston compositor which adds support for FreeRDP, an open-source remote desktop protocol. Now, after six revisions, the remote desktop code has been merged into the trunk. While remote desktop has been prototyped in Weston once before by Wayland developer Kristian Høgsberg, this is the first time Wayland/Weston has officially supported the feature. For a summary of why we can expect Wayland's remote desktop to surpass X.Org's network transparency, see Daniel Stone's excellent talk from Linux.conf.au."
Wow, windows finally has a proper shell and program forwarding.
Any word on when it will be able to delete files that are open?
One of these days that OS really will catch up to the 80s.
Your bad rhetoric is unconvincing. Your appeal to authority is the mark of a simpleton. Meanwhile, many of us continue to effectively use X remotely both on local networks and across the Internet.
So, that feature needs to be in any attempt to mindlessly flee from X.
It also needs to not suck (like VNC on MacOS does).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
As I told another poster, Network Forwarding != Network Transparency.
OK, you're not a liar, you're just redefining commonly understood terms to confuse people. Fair play.
ou know how modern X servers operate over a network? By pushing a bunch of bitmaps
First yo umean xclients. And no, the cliend can still upload nice glyph bitmaps and then composite them using the bitmap IDs instead of using the old font mechanism, meaning the expensive bitmaps are sent once, not once per use.
Unless you are a real fossil, I was probably doing X forwarding before you even new what Linux was, and I know much much more about its limitations than you do.
Possibly, but the window is not enormous. I started with X in 94, and it debuted in 87. So I've been using it for 19 of it's 25 years in service.
2. If you're calling me a liar, you're also calling the main developers of the X server and Wayland liars because they agree with me and not with you.
Keith Packard is a bit of a FUD machine and seems to enjoyu setting up straw men along with making some very odd claims which are demonstrably false (a I've covered repeatedly). The fact that he's an X developer only means that his acts must be intentional, rather than through a lack of knowledge.
SJW n. One who posts facts.