Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 8/15/13 12:42 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 18:35:22 UTC, Joakim wrote: >>> I've only done X11 forwarding over ssh, both WAN and LAN, it was >>> incredibly laggy in both cases. >> >> You're probably using bloated apps! I'm using my crappygui.d on remote X >> and it works quite well. Of course it is mostly rectangles of solid >> colors :) >> >> I also just tried creating an OpenGL window remotely, and it performed >> reasonably well too, drawing some colorful triangles. I think I'll add >> some minimal support for creating opengl contexts to simpledisplay.d, >> that's useful stuff. > > The X Window System is slow by design, particularly when used over a > network (regardless how fast). There are various proxies and alternate > remoting protocols that avoid its inherent latencies. At work we use > OpenNX.
If we are discussing X's shortcomings: why don't we use something like http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ which will (hopefully) become next big standard and which addresses many of X's flaws? -- Marek Janukowicz