v3 unusable for me

Posted Dec 5, 2024 17:43 UTC (Thu) by sramkrishna (subscriber, #72628)
In reply to: v3 unusable for me by NYKevin
Parent article: GIMP 3.0 — a milestone for open-source image editing

Have you considered editing your document using ssh://machine/path/to/file on your local vim? Then you don't need to run a remote app. You could even use a filemanager (take your pick) that has a virtual ssh filesystem and then run vim on that and it will load it up just fine.

I've actually found this much more resilient since networks are not always reliable. Having a locally cached copy on your vim session means less chance of data loss. Just a thought.

There is also waypipe, have you tried that?

v3 unusable for me

Posted Dec 9, 2024 11:50 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

In what way does editing a file over the network mean a lower chance of network related data loss than if the file never leaves the server? Or are you talking about SSH connections without something like screen, tmux or zellij that keeps you applications running if you lose the connection?

v3 unusable for me

Posted Jan 4, 2025 10:16 UTC (Sat) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050) [Link] (2 responses)

FWIW, waypipe works great for me via LAN, not sure how well it works via WAN though.

v3 unusable for me

Posted Jan 4, 2025 12:11 UTC (Sat) by TomH (subscriber, #56149) [Link] (1 responses)

I find that waypipe works fine over a WAN so long as you enable compression though I just checked and it seems that may be on by default now which it wasn't when I started using it - the default is lz4 though so you might want to switch to zstd on more constrained connections. I've been using zstd=10 myself.

v3 unusable for me

Posted Jan 4, 2025 13:46 UTC (Sat) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050) [Link]

Good to know, thanks.

As it happens, I recently noticed that compression is critical even for LAN, the default LZ4 is good enough for that though.