On Thu, 2024-02-08 at 21:02 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 8/2/24 13:51, hw wrote: > > It has become a very limited option years ago and is basically > > obsolete. Just try to run, for example, firefox on a remote host via > > X11 forwarding. I suspect that anything that might use acceleration > > powers of a graphics card doesn't work, and that kinda leaves only > > xterm which would be pointless. It also has always been rather slow > > (slow on a 1 gigabit network and up to unusably slow over internet > > (VPN)) and was never a good option. > > Oddly enough, it *does* work, even via SSH over a WAN link, with a few > caveats. > > 1. you must start with `--new-instance` if you have Firefox running on > your local workstation as well; otherwise it'll "talk" to your local > Firefox instance and tell *it* to open a new window > 2. there'll be some noticeable lag, forget watching videos
Last time I tried it didn't work at all. And what's the point when it's so slow that it's useless. I guess you can still try to do some web browsing with lynx as well :)
