[drdebug]

Using a wayland desktop, remote login into a Linux server, start a graphical text editor like gvim, it fails. This is a very common way to dev on Linux, I too have been doing this daily, and with ssh+X11 it works out of the box. I wonder what is the best way to do this with Wayland. Should I ask an admin to reconfigure the remote server to run a VNC or RDP server, and then use a specific tool to connect? I wonder if VNC/RDP can integrate apps as windows instead of all-in-one window.

[mgraczyk]

I do something similar with vim, no gui. I use vim over ssh with tmux. Others I know use vs code with an ssh backend. These two make up the workflow of roughly 60000 Googlers. None of them need X forwarding.

Some people may benefit from X forwarding, but the vast majority of Linux users do not.

[drdebug]

Your colleagues don't need X forwarding, so requirements from people that are not in the vast majority don't need to be addressed, they'll just have to use RDP/VNC even if it's a step backwards for them. Fortunately X11 is open source, so life can continue for those of us who need it.

[Shish2k]

Same at FB - vscode with ssh backend is the recommendation, ssh+vim works perfectly fine; last time I checked X forwarding did work, but even with a multi-gigabit connection and 20ms latency it was too painful so nobody did that...