On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 10:55 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > I realize this discussion is drifting away from fvwm, but... > > ...a major part of my daily activity has always depended on X11's > ability to function on remote displays. Does that functionality > (i.e. "DISPLAY=remotehost:0" vs. "DISPLAY=:0") exist if either or > both of the hosts is based on Wayland?
You'd have to try it out. I can't even try it since I can't tell if I have a configuration with which it could work. It has become a very limited option years ago and is basically obsolete. Just try to run, for example, firefox on a remote host via X11 forwarding. I suspect that anything that might use acceleration powers of a graphics card doesn't work, and that kinda leaves only xterm which would be pointless. It also has always been rather slow (slow on a 1 gigabit network and up to unusably slow over internet (VPN)) and was never a good option. You may be better off setting up xrdp for that, and you can use remmina (which works with wayland) to log in via rdp. It works fine over internet (VPN) as well. Gnome desktop sharing also works great, only you can't log in remotely (yet). You'd have to start a session and enable the sharing first for that. (I've waited over 20 years for a feature like that, and it finally works out of the box!)
