waypipe not working

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2024-02-26 19:02, Colin Rudakiewicz wrote:
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> 1. My remote Centos 9 host, centos92 (172.28.0.179), is using Wayland (XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland) using a direct console connection it is possible to run a non wayland glxgears (x11/GL) application from gnome-terminal, confused why this is not proxied using waypipe ssh owner at 172.28.0.179 glxgears, is it because when ssh -X is omitted, DISPLAY is not automatically set i.e. Xforwarding has not been requested? 

Yes.


> 2. This works: waypipe ssh -X owner at 172.28.0.179 glxgears, is X11 is being proxied via waypipe?

No. Waypipe is only involved with Wayland clients, not with X clients. The latter are handled by SSH's own X forwarding (which works similarly to Waypipe, they're independent though).


> Can you advise please, is there an advantage/performance benefit to running older X11/GL applications this way compared to simply running: ssh -X owner at 172.28.0.179?

It makes no difference whatsoever, since Waypipe isn't involved in any way with X clients.


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