Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Mark Eichin wrote: >> It gets points for being all-python ... but how does it differ from xmove? > > Excellent question! Off the top of my head, one difference is that I > wrote xpra, while I've never heard of xmove. That makes them > significantly different to me, but perhaps not so much to others :-). > Thanks for the tip. > > Looking at it, one thing I notice is that xmove has been unmaintained > since ~1997. Two consequences come to mind: > -- X has changed a lot since then -- in particular, modern apps all > use the Render extension for display. They also have fallbacks, > but IIUC using them means either losing things like aliased > fonts, or else paying huge additional round-trip penalties to do > client-side antialiasing (exactly what you don't want in the > remote-app case). I don't know that this would be an issue for > everyone, though. > -- The above isn't going to get fixed, nor will any other fixes get > made (except for the patches the debian maintainer seems to be > shepherding, which is nice but they look pretty minimal). > Which... isn't a problem if xmove is already perfect, or perfect > with respect to your uses. Since I've never used xmove, I have > no idea whether it has annoying aspects, or what those might be > :-).
Your points above are excellent, and I hope you'll put them in xpra's README or some other documentation. > It seems *plausible* xmove has annoying aspects, since very few people > use it or have heard of it as compared to, say, screen, but... have > you used it? What bugs you about it, if anything? I have to admit that I've only ever pointed to it as a solution, I've not actually had the problem :-) I think part of the issue there is that pretty much everyone who uses ssh these days ends up wanting screen, whereas most of the people using X are using it for local applications and the problem doesn't come up. _______________________________________________ Parti-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.partiwm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parti-discuss
