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The first thing that comes to my mind when reading this article is: "Does Wayland have something like "ssh -x""? After a bit of looking, it seems to me that Waypipe[0] is the successor to remote xorg sessions. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has used it if the functionality is truly comparable.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

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I'm looking forward to the same. The fact is that `ssh -x` and remote-X in general was really shitty with modern applications (basically sending uncompressed bitmaps and 2 round-trips for every input and output event) but it does work and is easy to set up thanks to SSH.

Things like waypipe and VNC work much better, but they aren't as easy to get set up yet.

Edit: I just tried waypipe again and it worked perfectly. I couldn't even tell the other device was remote (although it was on a fast local connection). Other than needing a separate tool rather than being built into ssh it seems pretty seamless.

Hey thank you for giving it a try, I'm happy to hear it works that well. Here's to the past in the future.

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