This is going to leave so many people by the wayside. (Pun totally intended.) Late 2020, my jaw dropped on the floor when a developer from CERN showed up and said that X11 support was needed in ContainerSSH for their use case and then developed it. (The LxPlus service, which acts as a dev host for researchers.) I thought X11 forwarding was well and truly a thing of the past.
Yes, I know that waypipe is a thing, but it needs to be installed on both ends and I haven't seen any mention of non-Linux support either.
X forwarding over SSH always struck me as a bit of an edge case. I used it maybe 5 times in the last 20 years. Most people probably never knew this was a thing.
I use it every day all day ever since it was introduced in ssh (can't remember when). Before that used to just forward in plaintext over the network (different times).
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This is going to leave so many people by the wayside. (Pun totally intended.) Late 2020, my jaw dropped on the floor when a developer from CERN showed up and said that X11 support was needed in ContainerSSH for their use case and then developed it. (The LxPlus service, which acts as a dev host for researchers.) I thought X11 forwarding was well and truly a thing of the past.
Yes, I know that waypipe is a thing, but it needs to be installed on both ends and I haven't seen any mention of non-Linux support either.
Am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
That's kind of the whole point of using X, the primary use case.
X forwarding over SSH always struck me as a bit of an edge case. I used it maybe 5 times in the last 20 years. Most people probably never knew this was a thing.
I use it every day all day ever since it was introduced in ssh (can't remember when). Before that used to just forward in plaintext over the network (different times).
When I explain this to people, they are usually very surprised.