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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Marco Moock    |
|    Re: killing X11    |
|    23 Jun 25 23:42:51    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:08:51 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:              > People still use it because Wayland lacks certain functionality like       > network transparency (you can run X11 apps on another networked       > machine).              But if you lose the network connection, all those remote apps die.              Better to use something like VNC or RDP, where the apps don’t even know       the user is at the other end of a network connection. That way you can       disconnect and reconnect from the same or different machine, and continue       using the desktop session without interruption.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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