What about remote X?
What about remote X?
Posted Nov 7, 2011 7:19 UTC (Mon) by lindi (subscriber, #53135)In reply to: What about remote X? by nwnk
Parent article: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types
I use xpra (svn revision 266) and afaik that means I'm running a compositor on both the server and the client.
X11 clients to talk to a dummy Xorg on the server. xpra connects to this dummy Xorg and acts as a compositor. It then forwards updates to composition buffers over the network. On the client machine xpra just creates stub windows and fills their composition buffers with data that it gets from network. Finally the real compositor (compiz) can work with these stub windows.