From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (tfb@tfeb.org) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:03:32 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] X, Suntools, and the like In-Reply-To: References: <011901d29cf3$a5e41560$f1ac4020$@ronnatalie.com> <4227EA32-12C2-46D1-B683-88812D1E5168@tfeb.org> Message-ID: <3B3776C9-1B22-4143-A4F5-0BEA13C79505@tfeb.org> On 15 Mar 2017, at 11:03, Nick Downing wrote: > > I realized after writing that I was being slightly unfair since one valid use case that DOES work correctly is something like: > ssh -X > This is occasionally handy, although the best use case I can think of is running a browser on some internet-facing machine so as to temporarily change your IP address I think you live in a strange alternative world, or (more likely) I do. My world is better however. In my world I have a machine on my desk which runs an X server (which currently is talking to the physical screen, but will I hope soon be some kind of VNC so I can push this display to wherever I need it). I also use a large number of machines which don't have any kind of screen and on which I may want to run graphical tools. In my experience this is what researchy type places with large-scale computing requirements have looked like essentially for ever, and it's the environment X was designed for (well, probably it was actually designed for student access at MIT but it very quickly moved into these environments). And it works *really* well, and anything which replaces it needs to work at least as well. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: