[TriLUG] attaching to remote X session (_not_ VNC)

[Kevin Hunter Kesling]

At 11:47pm -0500 Mon, 02 Dec 2013, Aaron Joyner wrote:
> I had some discussion around the dinner table with friends about the
> mechanics of why this isn't really practical with out a middle-man
> server... the full scope of why is a longer post for another night.

When you're ready, I'm all, er, eyes.

> It basically boils down to the fact that X11 (like NFS, and many
> other ~ancient unix protocols) really assumes that you have a very
> low latency, relatively high bandwidth, link between the client and
> server (like a unix domain socket :) ), and it's not trying to
> minimize it's use of that resource. In fact, X11 is in my mind the
> pathological poster child of that problem... it's shoveling around
> bitmap rendering, after all.

Heh, no arguments from me on this front.  :-)  (Or should that be :-( 
for the assumption of network?)  Not to mention any of the security 
implications as console X sessions typically run as root (though perhaps 
somewhat mitigated if tunneled through ssh).  This was an academic 
question that I'm much obliged to y'all for answering so thoroughly.

Cheers,

Kevin