Re: killing X11

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:08:51 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
 

People still use it because Wayland lacks certain functionality like
network transparency (you can run X11 apps on another networked
machine).

 
But if you lose the network connection, all those remote apps die.
 
Better to use something like VNC or RDP, where the apps don’t even know
the user is at the other end of a network connection. That way you can
disconnect and reconnect from the same or different machine, and continue
using the desktop session without interruption.

X2go does that for X.  It works much better than VNC/RDP because each window
is a window on your local machine, rather than everything being constrained
to a rectangular window.

Theo