LFCS 2012: X and Wayland [LWN.net]

LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 22, 2012 16:48 UTC (Sun) by VITTUIX-MAN (guest, #82895)
In reply to: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland by nybble41
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Wayland is exactly the right place to implement network transparency, in XPRA way in a network aware compositor.

This does all the things we love in networked X, that is mainly rootlessness is the default and it would allow plugging into a running session, so connection problems would no longer close all open programs.

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LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 22, 2012 17:16 UTC (Sun) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

> Wayland is exactly the right place to implement network transparency, in XPRA way in a network aware compositor.

For LAN yes, but as I said here (http://lwn.net/Articles/493461/), WAN will probably suck unless there are many changes.

In my understanding currently:
- the stock server (Weston) doesn't know when a user moves/resizes a window until the client tells it, so there must be a round trip before any action happen: far from ideal in a WAN.

- Wayland has very limited server rendering, so to be able to have XRender-way to display text, you'd have to change it significantly, until then Wayland will use much more bandwith to display text than X (if the toolkit use the XRender extension of course).