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   candycanearter07 to Theo   
   Re: killing X11   
   26 Jun 25 16:10:03   
   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Theo  wrote at 11:56 this Tuesday (GMT):   
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > X2go does that for X.  It works much better than VNC/RDP because each window   
   > is a window on your local machine, rather than everything being constrained   
   > to a rectangular window.   
   >   
   > Theo   
      
      
   Very cool program, thanks!   
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