X11, xcb, and round trip

Posted Mar 22, 2020 15:41 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: X11, xcb, and round trip by oldtomas
Parent article: Hacking the planet with Notcurses

I'm saying "tunneled X11 may work for you, but it does not work for me (and others in my very-common situation) so you can't hold it up as the end-all-be-all universal solution for everyone while dismissing the alternative approaches that work better in those situations."

*shrug*

X11, xcb, and round trip

Posted Mar 22, 2020 17:35 UTC (Sun) by anton (subscriber, #25547) [Link]

Then it's good that I did not "hold it up as the end-all-be-all universal solution for everyone while dismissing the alternative approaches that work better in those situations."

What I fear is that claims like your "unusable" will make software maintainers care even less for remote X performance than they do now.

Ideally there would better developer support by having a version of the X libraries that simulates a configurable remote latency also for local testing, and provides some profiling to point out where the latency arises.

Or, for your alternative approaches, make them work automatically across ssh. Ideally, both.