Comment by freddie_mercury
2 years ago
> This means that most common actions, like moving the cursor or selecting text, can be done locally, without the need for a round trip to the server
No, you weren't doing this. You were making a round trip to the server when you moved the cursor or selected text.
> You were making a round trip to the server when you moved the cursor or selected text.
Of course this being X, your machine ran the server and the remotes were the clients…
No, as gummy well putted it, all of that was done on the client computer.
The fact that it is easy to confuse the server with the client in X, it does not change the fact that the XServer and XEmacs are running on different computers, so each interaction is a round-trip.
XServer and XEmacs are both running on the client machine.
Also it is impossible by laws of physics by using distributed computing, not having each keypress and its display on a rendering surface, being a two way street.
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There’s some confusion in some of the replies here. The point this person is trying to make is that you get the remote machine’s key bindings, not the local’s. That’s an artifact of the experience being a remote desktop.