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try xpra

Posted Apr 10, 2012 15:32 UTC (Tue) by amtota (guest, #4012)
In reply to: NX for Wayland? by littlesandra88
Parent article: The state of Wayland

Try the x264 support currently in trunk (no releases yet), according to the preliminary figures we have it is an order of magnitude more efficient than anything (open-source) out there.

It is lossy but more than good enough to use a terminal over it, and if you really must have a pixel perfect image then use png encoding.

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try xpra

Posted Apr 11, 2012 19:42 UTC (Wed) by littlesandra88 (guest, #64017) [Link]

That's very impressive!

How will Wayland affect xpre, when Fedora and Ubuntu adopts Wayland?

try xpra

Posted Oct 10, 2012 8:20 UTC (Wed) by amtota (guest, #4012) [Link]

First, it looks like Wayland adoption is not going as fast as originally thought.
Second, although there are talks of remoting support in Wayland, it does not look like this is going to have anywhere near feature parity with xpra: no video/lossy compression, not support for re-connection, etc...