On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Mark Eichin wrote:
> It gets points for being all-python ... but how does it differ from xmove?
Excellent question! Off the top of my head, one difference is that I
wrote xpra, while I've never heard of xmove. That makes them
significantly different to me, but perhaps not so much to others :-).
Thanks for the tip.
Looking at it, one thing I notice is that xmove has been unmaintained
since ~1997. Two consequences come to mind:
-- X has changed a lot since then -- in particular, modern apps all
use the Render extension for display. They also have fallbacks,
but IIUC using them means either losing things like aliased
fonts, or else paying huge additional round-trip penalties to do
client-side antialiasing (exactly what you don't want in the
remote-app case). I don't know that this would be an issue for
everyone, though.
-- The above isn't going to get fixed, nor will any other fixes get
made (except for the patches the debian maintainer seems to be
shepherding, which is nice but they look pretty minimal).
Which... isn't a problem if xmove is already perfect, or perfect
with respect to your uses. Since I've never used xmove, I have
no idea whether it has annoying aspects, or what those might be
:-).
It seems *plausible* xmove has annoying aspects, since very few people
use it or have heard of it as compared to, say, screen, but... have
you used it? What bugs you about it, if anything?
-- Nathaniel
--
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways.
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