Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:47:01 +0100 Christophe Lohr
<christophe.lohr at cegetel.net> said:

> Le 09/02/2025 à 20:26, Carsten Haitzler a écrit :
> > using mit-shm is entirely a choice by the x client itself. invariably the
> > right thing to do is try use the mit-shm extension - set up a xshmimage
> > ansds then try xshmattach and see if you get an error. if you do - it's not
> > going to work (not local) so... fall back to ximages (not xshmimages). if
> > the apps are not doing this... that's their problem. they are obviously
> > then clients that will never be cappable of running remotely.
> 
> Is there any minimalist XShm demo tool?
> (e.g like an xlogo++ ?)

not that i know of... i've just written plenty of ximage + xshmimage code over
the decades so know how it works and know how to do my fallbacks so it
keeps working (just more slowly without shm) :) 

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