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|    Andy Burns to Marco Moock    |
|    Re: killing X11    |
|    24 Jun 25 09:00:30    |
      From: usenet@andyburns.uk              Marco Moock wrote:              > Ben Collver quoted tedu:       >       >> X11 is supposed to be dead, but people keep using it because       >> apparently it still works. I have a plan to fix this so everyone does       >> what I want.       >       > People still use it because Wayland lacks certain functionality like       > network transparency (you can run X11 apps on another networked       > machine). Certain desktop environments/windows mangers don't support       > Wayland.              Sure, most of us have used XDMCP, SSH tunnelling to start full X11       sessions, or the DISPLAY environment to run xeyes on a colleague's       workstation, I never tried LBX.              > The Wayland people seems to ignore that, so X11 users will stay.       Does anyone genuinely use X11 remotely? Remote sessions for Wayland can       be done with VNC/NX/RDP/SPICE/QXL surely?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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