On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:28:10PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:24 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > That's an interesting solution. If I logged into a remote machine would > > > I have to run a separate compositor for every application or one per > > > remote connection? I suppose the compositor could be started > > > automatically if the wayland libraries looked for an env setting (the > > > same way X looks for DISPLAY). > > > > When you did ssh --wayland, the remote ssh session daemon would start > > that special compositor and inject its address into the environment so > > things you launched under that session would use it. Then your ssh > > client would start a proxy wayland client to recieve the compressed > > buffers and create windows on your local wayland compositor. > > > > Best part is, if you composited the buffers beforehand and then sent the > > result as a giant window, you get VNC functionality, so you only need > > one protocol for both. > > > > I assume there would be a fallback method for older ssh clients? > It would involve a bit more effort on the user's part (most of which could be rolled into a script) but you could set up the final scenario using present-day ssh assuming you had the wayland bits on both ends. --CJD -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
