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.
If you think this is cursed… Try playing steam games over X forwarding xD
It’s cool though!
Only if the machine is on LAN. I am running with 250ms here.
I’m guessing that your remote XFCE isn’t doing anything to do with Wayland, it’s the local VNC client.
No, I was not using VNC. VNC xstartup script just launched xfce4-session which connected to Waypipe rather than Xtigervnc.
It does integrate itself to KDE nicely. Even with virtual desktops. And it even properly does the animations. Downside is, I can’t access the original desktop on my laptop while it’s running. Peek at desktop also shows XFCE.
Here’s the cube switcher, showing XFCE instead:
I was referring to this part:
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.
Now I don’t really understand what you’re doing at all.
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).
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I’ve used Xpra for similar
