I highly recommend the talk by Daniel Stone who used to be a core X.org
developer. He explains it quite well how X is used currently, and why
it has problems and why they are considered so hard to fix that Wayland
(and Mir) was created.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
One interesting
On 06/30/2014 07:36 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Hmm. I'm not sure that it's necessarily that bad; I've done 3G-based
> X11 forwarding fairly successfully on occasion. Yes, it's potentially
> quite slow, but it certainly works - I've used SciTE, for instance,
> and I've used some GTK2 apps without p
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Only the most primitive X11 apps are at all fast over network
> forwarding. If the app uses any modern toolkit, then it's basically
> just sending a bunch of bitmaps over the wire (changes), which would be
> fine, but X11 involves a lot of
On 06/28/2014 09:16 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> I remember approx. 10 years ago a neighboring dept. at my work effectively
>> killed our 10 MB/s Ethernet segment with such traffic (due to a
>> misconfigured switch/router?). Running an ethernet analyzer showed a single
>> X11 host-server session oc
