Tk-like toolkit for Curses

Posted Mar 20, 2020 13:08 UTC (Fri) by morganr (guest, #43385)
In reply to: Tk-like toolkit for Curses by dskoll
Parent article: Hacking the planet with Notcurses

The claim that "X11 GUIs run remotely over SSH are effectively unusable" doesn't seem right given that I'm using a Tk application (git gui) doing just that over a VPN while working remotely. There's a noticeable (1s?) lag when opening windows compared to rendering on the same machine, but that doesn't make it unusable for me at least.

Tk-like toolkit for Curses

Posted Mar 20, 2020 23:16 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

But Tk is not like modern GUI toolkits. Tk uses X11 as X11 was originally intended to be used.

The result is not necessarily pretty but it does work pretty well.

Tk-like toolkit for Curses

Posted Mar 23, 2020 9:13 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Some X11 applications work quite nicely over even a slower line, some others are totally unusable because they keep redrawing everything constantly. The latter kind can be used remotely with VNC, which transmits only the actually changed pieces of the display.