x forwarding still works under wayland
from bunitor@lemmy.eco.br to linux@lemmy.ml on 09 Sep 19:15
https://lemmy.eco.br/post/16415926

i know this sounds silly and it should be obvious, but i’ve been using x forwarding at work for a few days now, but it just dawned on me that i’m running wayland on my plasma machine and the x forwarded window is display through xwayland. it works so well that i didn’t even notice a difference and in fact it seems to perform better than on x

this is not even the first time xwayland works better than pure x at work. i also need to use horizon client every once in a while and it got so much more stable after i moved to wayland – even though the application claims wayland is unsupported

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themoken@startrek.website on 09 Sep 19:21 next collapse

You are getting this from Xwayland, so you’re running a rootless X server in the background. It’s nice that it works seamlessly, but it’s not really Wayland doing anything but managing the X window.

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 09 Sep 19:23 collapse

yup. it’s still nice and also pretty funny that wayland provides a better x11 experience than x11

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 09 Sep 20:18 collapse

that’s how you know that wayland is the future. lol

user224@lemmy.sdf.org on 09 Sep 21:32 next collapse

How are you doing it?

I only tried X11 forwarding over SSH. It was slow and ate up a Gigabit.

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 10 Sep 01:22 collapse

ssh -XC

it runs a bit slow, but it is surprisingly usable. in some aspects, it has almost the same performance as vnc with the difference that it is integrated with the system. i have a 600 mbps internet connection

Corngood@lemmy.ml on 10 Sep 00:00 next collapse

Unfortunately X forwarding doesn’t work (as far as I can tell) with vulkan.

What I’ve been doing is using waypipe (which seems very stable), with xwayland-satellite (which is not so stable) on the remote end.

I’d also love persistent sessions, so I’ve been following wprs, but it doesn’t seem to support GPU drawing at all.

Lots of interesting tech, but it’s still pretty immature.

Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works on 11 Sep 20:09 collapse

Well, it performs worse when used to stream 1440p games, but it shines used to allow corporate remote workers to click buttons on java apps

brandon@piefed.social on 11 Sep 14:40 collapse

For wayland applications you can try waypipe too, which I've found works for most things.

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 11 Sep 15:11 next collapse

i’ve been meaning to try it, but my company’s machines are still x11-only

LeFantome@programming.dev on 12 Sep 15:28 collapse