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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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283 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.91s | source
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kragen ◴[24 Jun 25 21:07 UTC] No.44371077[source]▶
I think it was yesterday that people's on HN were saying GLX doesn't work over the network?
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1. rwmj ◴[24 Jun 25 21:17 UTC] No.44371161[source]▶

  $ ssh <remote> glxgears
runs fine!
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2. Ballas ◴[25 Jun 25 05:51 UTC] No.44373994[source]▶
Wow, when did that happen?

A couple of years ago I could not get anything OpenGL working over ssh, no matter how hard I tried. Ever since I just accepted that as fact. But I tested it now and it just works!

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3. krackers ◴[25 Jun 25 07:19 UTC] No.44374471[source]▶
hasn't this always been the case? I thought one of the whole reasons for the weird design of OpenGL API was that it was a client-server sort of thing to allow for network transparency
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4. simoncion ◴[25 Jun 25 08:57 UTC] No.44375067{3}[source]▶
My understanding matches your own.

I was doing this circa 2005 with an OpenGL program running on a Linux box in a server closet and a Windows machine running on my desk running some X11 server. Before I did that, I did research into the remote-draw capability of both X11 and OpenGL and came to the conclusion that what I eventually ended up doing would work just fine.