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1. Emacsen (emacsen@emacsen.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 06:36:27 UTC Emacsen

   When I was in college, I used to ssh into my dorm room desktop and forward X11 to a PC in the computer lab and run an Emacs session there because it was easier to focus outside my room.

   Now, 25 years later, I genuinely don't know how to do that kind of thing anymore.

   X11 is dead. VNC on Windows appears not to work and there doesn't seem to be any functioning "client<->server" emacs package.

   • Robby (robby@zoinks.one)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 06:36:24 UTC Robby

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     @emacsen I use waypipe for this sort of thing on Wayland. In fact I packaged it for Guix so it can be used on any distro easily :)

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   • Steinar Bang (steinarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 14:57:10 UTC Steinar Bang

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     @emacsen Umm... I used X11 from windows laptops to my debian desktop up until this Christmas... so I'll argue that X11 isn't dead. 🙂

     I used it to remote display emacs and eclipse on the laptop, so I could program while sitting in the living room.

     Emacs and eclipse works fine over X11. Moderntweb browsers not so much (firefox broke remote display first, back in 2008 or thereabouts, when they started rendering to a pixmap instead of using the X primitives).

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   • Emacsen (emacsen@emacsen.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 14:57:21 UTC Emacsen

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     • Kuba Orlik

     @kuba

     Yeah i kinda forgot about console mode :)

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   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 14:57:26 UTC Kuba Orlik

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     @emacsen would't just running emacs inside an ssh shell work? Or a local emacs instance over tramp mode?