[aragilar]

I'm not sure this is true for apps that commonly forwarded though? My impression is tk for example uses xlib heavily and so has much better behaviour over the network than GTK, and the majority of apps I've seen where the audience uses X forwarding commonly seem to be using tk.

[epcoa]

Somebody in a thread the other day lamented how almost always X clients are sensitive to network drops. And the suggestion is to use Xpra! (It’s “like tmux”) Xpra doesn’t forward X though, it is a rootless X server that then forwards everything as compressed bitmaps like VNC. It’s a nice homage to how awful X is even at its one oft purported benefit around here.

X11 network transparency is a pretty poor technology, one can go through each of the “Fallacies of Distributed Computing” document to understand why.

[1oooqooq]

and instead of x12 modernizing the network and access layer, breaking backwards compatibility with x11, they dropped those two features, and rewrote everything else which worked, and broke backwards compatibility.

it's hard to defend.

[kaba0]

I’m fairly sure the very maintainers of X11 knew more about the topic than you. And you get backwards compatibility with stuff like xwayland.