I like the idea of X forwarding, but it doesn’t work in real world anymore. As far as I know, it has to do many round-trips for everything. Launching something like LibreOffice Writer is funny, it will be loading bit by bit, icon by icon for several minutes. It was only usable for me on < 1ms network.
Unlike say VNC, it opens windows locally.
And now there’s Waypipe which does the same thing, but for Wayland. And it actually works! Even better than VNC.
BUT, it doesn’t work for X programs. It can somewhat work with rootful Xwayland… but that’s basically a desktop for X-only programs.
Welp, I just wanted to check something on the remote desktop, so I launched VNC, and WOAH, I didn’t expect to get XFCE invasion.
I didn’t know XFCE can do Wayland now.
Anyway, this cursed thing does actually work pretty fine. xfce4-session works with Waypipe, good to know.
Using Waypipe, which proxies Wayland program GUIs to my local computer, just like
ssh -X, but with Wayland, and it actually works over the internet (read: high latency).I didn’t know XFCE supported Wayland , so I casually ran
vncserver, which launchedxfce4-session, except that it attached itself to the Wayland display (proxied to my local machine) rather than X display of TigerVNC. And here come the full XFCE right to my local machine (which is running Plasma).