Re: problems installing xquartz
Re: problems installing xquartz
- Subject: Re: problems installing xquartz
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:29:58 -0500
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Erik Olson
<email@hidden> wrote:
> 1) It's network transparent. This is really the beauty of it all. You
> can execute your app on one host, and display the results on a
> different one, and the system is designed from scratch to handle
> exactly that. The app doesn't even know about it.
I agree, remote X11 display is a fantastically wonderful feature. The ability to run my software on a large supercomputer and display it remotely over the Internet is incredibly powerful. With a good enough ping time it's just like being there. VNC does not compare.
I have not seen many real world things work very well even directly. (Try Firefox sometime. And a common "oops" at CMU ECE was someone trying to use Cadence's ICFB remotely.) Also, I hope you have no need for security.... ssh's X11 forwarding is a good thing.
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brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates
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