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by eptcyka 798 days ago
X is literally that.
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It's not though. You have to fiddle around with ports and servers and environment variables.

But a drawing API is clearly not the way modern graphics works best. What would be really cool is a terminal that supported low latency streaming video. Then you can do proper GUI apps using any rendering system they want and it will properly integrate with ssh.

Xsixel
> You have to fiddle around with ports and servers and environment variables.
Would you kindly clarify? Did you mean Xterm?
I believe they meant X.org, the graphical stack used by most graphical Linux systems.
> modern

um.

I guess the rest applies, but...