I'm not seeing where in the architecture Wayland supports cut and paste between local applications (or, in general, any sort of interaction between clients). So remote applications won't be second-class citizens in that sense, because it isn't supported at all. I suspect that there will be some mechanism outside of Wayland for it, and it will hopefully be something ssh/sshd will quickly learn to proxy. And, for that matter, it would be great if that covered other inter-client communication that X doesn't presently carry, like opening URLs in your web browser and libnotify.
Posted Feb 16, 2012 20:10 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)
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I hope there will be a datagram based protocol, something that can be wrapped in a UDP-based OpenVPN or IPsec tunnel instead of SSH, for better latency. Putty in an RDP session is as much pain as xterm over VNC.
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Posted Feb 17, 2012 7:22 UTC (Fri) by JohnLenz (subscriber, #42089)
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Actually, that isn't correct. The protocol includes direct support for copy/paste and drag/drop. See this old thread for the rationale to add it directly to the protocol. You can notice the copy/paste stuff in the current protocol description.