[Libre-soc-dev] Installing an X terminal on an Android phone

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 16:06 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

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> On Sunday, December 3, 2023, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
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> > I said *remote* X11, aka over ssh to another computer.
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> FreeNX and NoMachine. over 20 years old.
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remote X11 worked fine >20yr ago when everything was software rendered, now
days nearly everything expects you to have a GPU and to be able to use a 3D
API and quickly transfer giant textures between the CPU and GPU using
memory mapping. none of that works very well over remote X11 protocol.

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> xrdp. use with rdesktop.  irritatingly xrdp back-ends to
> VNCserver in a completely shit way, but it "works".
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yes, that's VNC or Microsoft's RDP. I said *remote X11 protocol*, which VNC
most definitely is not.

Jacob