> [email protected] said on Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:44:17 -0500 > >>> Ron wrote on 2026-01-18 12:58: >> >>> I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people here are running >>> graphical programs across a network. >> >>This is the thing with non-unix people trying to write unix software, >>they don't understand unix. > > I must not understand Unix either, because the few GUI programs I write > never consider the possibility of remote usage. This is exactly why I > made my UMENU program CLI instead of GUI: You can run it anywhere, even > on a teletype. And you can run it in a simple CLI SSH session.
Sure text where text is text, ssh rules. Have you ever used ssh to connect to your home machine to run a graphical program (like a browser) to get data? You should seriously try X11 over ssh, it is absolutely amazing. In a LAN, it is almost indistinguishable from local. (Well, maybe not that good) but X11 over network is a useful tool. Abandoning it is a mistake. > > Personally, I try very hard never to run GUI programs remotely. If I > were really desperate, I'd program them locally and use git to > synchronize when I'm on the road. No GUI required. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > > http://444domains.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
