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First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the reinventing-x-but-better dept.

munwin99 writes: For the longest time, when bringing up Wayland a recurring question was 'what about network transparency?!' Well, Samsung's Derek Foreman has today published the set of Wayland patches for providing Wayland network transparency by pushing the Wayland protocol over TCP/IP.

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  1. Re:Seriously?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do not use a full session, but often need to launch small applications without disturbing the normal use of the remote machine. For example it could be the software manager of the distro, or a specialized software only available on a particular machine (for example because it has a hardlock key, or it does not run on the operating system you are using on you main workstation).

  2. vnc is to X as penthouse is to girlfriend by raymorris · · Score: 5, Informative

    X is a protocol for graphical interface elements, such as application windows. With remote X, the application's window IS on your local screen, using the remote cpu and fileystem. It's part of your local desktop, a real, local window.

    VNC is a highly compressed PICTURE of a remote desktop.

    Since X is the real thing, and VNC is a low quality PICTURE of what X is actually doing, it's just like you're saying that a porno mag is better than an actual girlfriend. Your comment is THAT ridiculous.

    Besides the fact that you seemingly don't know the difference between an application and a desktop environment.

    If you ever want to stop masturbating with VNC and try the real thing, use vnc -Y -C . Y is a better version of -X, and -C enables lossless compression, which is very useful on most networks.