Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> 
> And where does that sit in the architecture? 
> 
> Looking over the architecture page (2nd figure) it looks like the only
> way to get the kind of network transparency that X has under Wayland is
> to put the network between the Wayland client and Wayland Compositor.
> Which would mean that the passing of events has to be networkable from
> the start.  If its put on top it ends up being the VNC model of doing
> things and that sucks in a big way.
> 

Basically you'd run an alternate compositor in your ssh session that
would read out the buffers, compress them, and send them over the
network instead of compositing them into a larger buffer and scanning
them out.

--CJD
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