LPC: Life after X

Posted Nov 8, 2010 20:21 UTC (Mon) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: LPC: Life after X by marcH
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

>> if X applications don't care about working remotely, then they *DONT*, because they do too many round-trips, [...] I have tried to use X remotely a few times, but it simply isn't usable for most things other than emacs and xterm.
> On a LAN this is just plain wrong.

Thanks for the creative editing.

Let me fill in the "[...]" you snipped out of my original message:
>which becomes deadly over a network with more than a few ms RTT
Hey, guess what! On a LAN, you won't have more than a few ms RTT!

Now try running those apps when you're working at home, a few miles away real-space, and 50ms away RTT.

LPC: Life after X

Posted Nov 8, 2010 21:54 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

My bad I honestly missed that. Sorry.

Even if X11 networking is or has become unusable on the WAN it is does not really matter: it still works very well on the LAN so it can absolutely not be dismissed as if it were a forgotten thing from the past.