On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 13:54, Nils Faerber wrote:
> I have not yet had a closer look on D-Bus but I would suppose that they
> already use something like networking to communicate.
Yes, D-BUS currently seems to use either Unix or TCP sockets.
> So I would guess that if you switch X11 displays over network you could
> also switch communication the same way.
The problem is that the X connection may be tunnelled through something
like SSH, or routed via a firewall that allows X11 connections but not
other protocols. So, there is no guarantee that it will be possible to
establish an independent communication channel alongside the X
connection.
p.
Received on Fri Mar 07 2003 - 14:02:51 EST
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