Comment by ux266478
6 hours ago
>It is absolutely an inferior and chatty protocol for any other application though, like try to watch a youtube video in chrome through it.
This is extremely misleading. Web browsers (and games) are the worst case for X11's network transparency. The overwhelming majority of applications belong in the same category as xeyes.
> the original X network transparency's modern analogue might very well be the web
It's Arcan, which solved this problem without sacrificing network transparency at the altar.
> The overwhelming majority of applications belong in the same category as xeyes.
Well, I'm not sure you are using that many xmotif apps. Most of the GUI programs are gtk/qt (and let's be honest, electron) - and they are mostly bitmaps to X's eyes (pun not intended). They don't use draw commands with such a small granularity that network transparency would benefit.
And Arcan is so many things at once I'm not convinced it is a good alternative to Wayland. It has good ideas, but they sort of require the whole package. Meanwhile Wayland is just a minimal API over the Linux kernel API for managing display buffers, that can be extended with additional protocols.