[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2024-04-21, motk <meh at meh.meh> wrote:
>> Wayland is not X. It was never designed to do that, and I've personally 
>> berated Keith et al about that decision. RDP pretty much exploded and 
>> all interest in replicated X in that way vanished, but there is yet 
>> hope, ie https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
>
>When running in a lower-bandwidth situation, what are the bandwidth
>requirements with the above approach, versus running the X11 protocol
>directly over ssh ?

rdp is a little bit faster than remote X11 but it's still really awful 
if there is any channel latency.  FastX, which is a proprietary solution
but an excellent one, is definitely a win.

Neither x11 nor rdp were ever intended for cross-country use.
--scott

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