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Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Posted Oct 24, 2012 5:03 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released by Cyberax
Parent article: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

It kind of disproves the point though, and validates the Wayland approach; it shows that you need a proxy compositor to make the latency less biting on all the round-trips you need to do. Which is heaps.


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Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Posted Oct 24, 2012 5:17 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

It disproves the point rather more strongly than that - xpra only sends bitmaps (optionally compressed via a range of codecs), not X.

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