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Mac OS X suppot is just about awfulMac OS X suppot is just about awfulPosted Oct 26, 2012 12:04 UTC (Fri) by dps (subscriber, #5725)In reply to: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released by drag Parent article: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released
I have a Mac OS X laptop and the X support is really not what it is cracked up to be. I can run remote X11 things OK but cut and paste is iffy and the experience somewhat suboptimal.
The killer failure of me is that I can *not* run mac os X application remotely, so I can't that M$ office as part of my desktop environment (which has a much bigger display). Unless you use relatively rare X extensions, most obviously xshm. that does not apply if you use X11 applications.
I am not arguing for the same protocol but I anything that does not allow me to mix normal applications running on multiple systems in a single desktop is several steps backward. Mac OS X fails the "can I run local applications on a remote display?" test. I hope wayland will not.
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Mac OS X suppot is just about awful Posted Oct 26, 2012 16:23 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
> Unless you use relatively rare X extensions, most obviously xshm
'Relatively rare'?! MIT-SHM is used for pretty all image transfer (which is most everything these days) by every major toolkit, and has been shipped with X.Org/XFree86 servers since 1991. It's actually of legal drinking age in the US.
Mac OS X suppot is just about awful Posted Oct 28, 2012 15:54 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
With a name like 'dps' your respondent is obviously posting through a time-warp from the mid-90s at the very latest. :)
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