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supportengineer on July 24, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager

We had a bright future in the past.

c-hendricks on July 25, 2025 | [–]

Something tells me modern remote access tools that use video codecs are much more performant than SSH + X forwarding when dealing with resolutions and desktop effects we use today.

throwaway328 on July 24, 2025 | [–]

You mean a kind of "Spectres of Marx", Jacques Derrida, 1993, hauntology type thing?

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