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The irony

Posted Nov 5, 2010 13:30 UTC (Fri) by rgoates (guest, #3280)
In reply to: The irony by dlang
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland

The last time I checked (which has been several years), an interactive X session sends a network packet for each and every keystroke. A horrible waste of bandwidth, but I'm not sure how you can improve that without affecting interactivity (or significantly changing the client-server model X is built around).

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The irony

Posted Nov 6, 2010 3:42 UTC (Sat) by mfedyk (guest, #55303) [Link]

just like..... ssh.

please explain why nx hasn't become the wire protocol for x...