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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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283 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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rwmj ◴[24 Jun 25 21:13 UTC] No.44371126[source]▶
It's like the "oh no, X11 suffers from tearing video" problem that they pull out all the time. (A) I have no idea what "video tear" is and (B) I play video all the time on my crappy laptop running X11 and it seems fine for me. But can I ssh to my remote server and run emacs or another program completely transparently yet with Wayland? Nope. I do that with X11 continuously.
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ndiddy ◴[24 Jun 25 23:09 UTC] No.44372035[source]▶
> But can I ssh to my remote server and run emacs or another program completely transparently yet with Wayland? Nope.

Yes, you can! Waypipe came out 6 years ago. Its express purpose is to make a Wayland equivalent to ssh -X. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/

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1. aragilar ◴[26 Jun 25 12:19 UTC] No.44386698[source]▶
Except: 1. It's Wayland-to-Wayland (which means you're much more limited to where it can run than X-to-X, where's the MacOS or Windows or BSD Wayland build?). 2. It's not integrated with ssh (X forwarding is part of the protocol). 3. You need it on both the client and the server, so you need to work out how to get it onto the server.