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by stass 4759 days ago
> “X is Network Transparent.” Wrong. Its not. Core X and DRI-1 were network transparent. No one uses either one. Shared-Memory, DRI-2 and DRI-3000 are NOT network transparent, they do NOT work over the network.

This is not true. X11 is network transparent, poorly designed toolkits like GTK are not. So essentially they are writing a new graphics server for Gnome/KDE. But those have never been good X11 citizens anyway.

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Does anyone even use DRI-2 directly, rather than through Mesa/OpenGL (which can, as far as I can tell, fall back to AIGLX even if you're using DRI-2)?