[Discuss] Future of X11 (was Trying to connect to internet in Debian)

[ron at bclug.ca (Ron)]

Ron wrote on 2026-01-18 12:58:

>> 3) X is a security nightmare, where all applications can see all
>> inputs to all other applications, something that would be
>> astonishingly insecure 20+ years ago
> 
> Ouch, yes, I've heard that.
> 
> Question: Does it matter where the applications are running?
> Specifically, can two remote windows coming from different clients
> (to use the odd X sense of the term) on different machine, see each
> other's activities on the same physical server (to again use the odd
> backwards sense)?

Honestly not sure. It's an interesting question though.


sshfs allows locally run GUI programs to open remote resources.

KDE has something like "fish" built-in for their tools, and VS Codium 
supports it with a plugin.


I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people here are running 
graphical programs across a network.


Especially with "servers", which generally do not have any GUI installed 
anyway.


It does seem that Wayland's lack of support for this feature will affect 
an asymptotically small number of users.