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WPRS uses the term rootless like this. I didn't come up with it. But I agree it is not a great term. If you can think of a better one I will happily use it. Parallels calls it "coherence mode", which also isn't great.

Actually Xprs uses "seamless mode" which is probably better.

Yeah it's more complex. I don't think there's any more overhead though, and there's no reason it will be slow.

Can’t you just run it locally?

No, unfortunately not.

Isn't it just basic X forwarding?

but there are literally dozens of strategies you probably don’t know about

Oh please tell me, wise old man! You can't be talking about garbage collection, reference counting, smart pointers, never-free, arenas, defer, or god forbid, the "I am perfect and can do it manually and never make mistakes" method. Because I know about all of those methods.

What are these other dozens of methods that I don't know about that mean Rust is unnecessary? 🙄

Sorry I misread, VNC is slow. RDP is a lot better. Does not appear to be rootless though, even though IIRC the RDP protocol does support that? I might have misremembered.

Yeah MJPEG isn't going to cut it, and as you say it's not rootless.

I mean it's totally possible in theory. Do you just mean nobody has actually written something that does this?

You have to launch an app, log in twice and then you get an annoying VNC-style remote desktop, not native windows. Also it doesn't run at all on Wayland. Apart from that it works pretty well - fast, and stuff like copy/paste works. I would just like something that is as convenient as remote X, but not dog slow.

See my edit to the post. I probably should have clarified that.

Don't tease gossip? Either say "I'm quitting due to personal reasons" or give actual details "I'm quitting because I received ongoing abuse about being trans on X from several users and I'm fed up with it" (or whatever the reason was; I just guessed that).

Sorry rootless in this context means it doesn't have a big window showing the whole remote desktop, instead each remote window shows up as if it were a local window. Nothing to do with the root account. Kind of confusing, sorry!

Not rootless as far as I can tell.