Petr Cerny wrote:
Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Are you trying to indoctrinate people for Wayland? Some background for this 'warning' definitely is needed.
I haven't mentioned Wayland anywhere, my statement was: "I strongly advocate using VNC". If you would you like my opinion on Wayland, please move it off this thread.
No, just curious. Most people I met so far trying to push VNC for everything were (also) wayland wanters. Doesn't really matter....
I'll definitely not start a whole X session just for a single console application that might (or not) open some graphics window.
I haven't mentioned starting a whole X session (I suppose you understand it as fully fledged GNOME/KDE environment). What Xnvc/vncserver does is a matter of configuration.
Sure, it's still the X server plus some window manager. With 20 users doing that on our server that might consume quite a part of its memory that is much better used for data processing...
Speaking of console application that may open a X window, that is actually easily done with VNC as well. Just ssh to the remote side, export the DISPLAY environment variable pointing to a Xvnc server running on that machine and you are all set up (you may need to export XAUTHORITY as well).
Yes. It's possible. But needs (quite some) configuration, opposite to the X forwarding. I guess my main issue is your general condemnation of forwarding. For me, this largely depends on context. Our main use of forwarding is an ssh -X login to a server, run computational-heavy stuff in languages like IDL or Python from the command line, and display results. This in the local network. Your assumed application(?) rather is running something like a browser or IDE via forwarding. I completely agree with you that for that purpose VNC is superior. But X forwarding in ssh *does* have many reasonable applications. And I strongly believe that no cat is harmed by doing it :D (The only thing I personally use VNC for regularly is x11vnc_ssh, to connect to running sessions of remote users for support) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org