[nullc]

> Yes, it was slow,

Not particularly if you are on a low latency network. Modern UI toolkits make applications way less responsive that classical X11 applications running across gigabit ethernet.

And even on a fast network the wayland alternative of 'use RDP' is almost unusable.

[kllrnohj]

the approach used in this blog post requires rdp. It's not drawing using X, so there's no vector network transparency.

[wmf]

Nope, this post is using GLX over the network.

[kllrnohj]

Nope, that's indirect rendering and is limited to OpenGL 1.4 more or less. This is using a much newer OpenGL than that.

Also if you look at the source it's specifying direct rendering in glxCreateContext: https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/xtoys/v/tip/f/circle.c & https://registry.khronos.org/OpenGL-Refpages/gl2.1/xhtml/glX...

The only thing leaving that process is a pixbuf, zero X11, identical to Wayland.

[nullc]

For whatever reason X11 shoving pixbufs over the network seems to have orders of magnitude better performance than actual RDP over a high speed network.

[uecker]

Clients can draw locally and composite remotely. I do not see the issue.

[kllrnohj]

draw locally composite remotely is literally Wayland's philosophy and is one of the biggest contentious issues for the pro-X11 crowd.

[uecker]

This what Wayland copied from modern X clients.