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

Jacob Lifshay programmerjake at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 00:37:02 GMT 2023


On Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 16:33 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> remote X11, remote X11.  jacob are you *seriously* complaining
> that expanding heavily compressed CPU-intensive protocols
> into raw framebuffer data resulting in at least three to FOUR
> orders magnitude increase in data transfer requirements even
> on small devices is the fault of X11?


yes, because X11 was designed like 30yr ago when no one routinely used 3D
APIs for their web browser. remote X11 doesn't work well between 2 x86
GNU/Linux systems either.

Jacob


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