Ideas for X improvement.

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Sat May 28 07:14:07 PDT 2011


Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpra
> http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra

This is the VNC approach (render locally, forward raster data), but
done on a window-by-window basis using compositing.

As such, it suffers from most of the same problems as x11vnc
(acceleration requires local video hardware, limited by frambuffer
read speed, inter-client communication needs explicit handling, etc). 
AFAICT, the only advantage is "rootless" operation.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>



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