From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74743 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Wildly off topic X11 discussion (was Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:33:50 +1100 Message-ID: References: <87mxok2nj9.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291628109 17895 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2010 09:35:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:35:09 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23099@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 06 10:35:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPXTM-00005K-Dh for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PPXTK-0002Xm-OM; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:35:02 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PPXTJ-0002XS-CV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:35:01 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PPXTH-0003ru-Uz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:35:01 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PPXTH-0006VG-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:34:59 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPXTG-0008W0-Im for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:34:58 +0100 Original-Received: from ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net ([59.167.189.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:34:58 +0100 Original-Received: from daniel by ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:34:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u9tW9a69emwPB+fxLELC0OiU4uw= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74743 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Steinar Bang writes: >>> The reason was that my Firefox isn't running on the same machine as my >>> Emacs, so when writing to /tmp, Firefox can't pick it up. >> >> Ubuntu's apparently in the process of removing this silly network >> transparency provided by X11. It's a silly legacy from the 80-ies that >> noone needs or want. >> >> Or so they say. > > I do wonder at ubuntu's decision-making process -- sometimes they seem > driven purely by hype... Hey, it worked for Apple and Microsoft for years.[1] No reason they shouldn't try it themselves - and, frankly, given the general experience level folks seem to have with remote X stuff these days? I don't know many people will really notice. (Have you noticed that GNOME do their screen sharing with a VNC server?) Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...although Microsoft actually implemented a remote display protocol that is better in places than X11, eventually. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ daniel@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons