xzibit 0.01 - release
Aug. 30th, 2010 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanel
xzibit 0.01 is now available for download. xzibit is a per-window VNC system; its development is supported by Collabora Ltd. This version is just a taster of what's possible: there's a fair amount more in existence that you won't see unless you play around. More of it will be more easily visible in later releases.Do read the README for instructions on setting it up: the checks in autotools for required programs are by no means perfect yet.
How this is different from X forwarding:
- Most importantly, because it works (or will soon work) over Telepathy tubes, so you can share windows with your chat contacts.
- Less importantly, it uses VNC so that it's platform-independent. There is only an X implementation at the moment, but eventually I'm hoping there'll be Windows and OS X implementations as well.
- I have proposed a talk on xzibit at LCA in January. I don't yet know whether it will be accepted.
- The protocol is explained here, and you can see a diagram explanation here.
You may clone the git repository from here.
I'm now working on 0.02, which will have proper working Telepathy support.
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eh?
Date: 2010-08-31 04:21 pm (UTC)Re: eh?
Date: 2010-08-31 04:25 pm (UTC)Re: eh?
Date: 2010-08-31 05:37 pm (UTC)Let's deprecate X11 already?
Date: 2010-08-31 06:00 pm (UTC)A backend for wayland would be uber cool. That way, X11 can be completely deprecated without significant loss in functionality since your work would fill the networking transparency gap. Am I on crack?
Tie-in with OpenSSH
Date: 2010-08-31 06:38 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Date: 2010-09-01 03:27 am (UTC)http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/94apr/ap
HP's SharedX was REAL and we used it almost 15 years ago regularly to share work and conference with other divisions all over the world. There was no audio/video ... you did that with a phone.
SPICE
Date: 2010-09-01 07:20 am (UTC)Re: eh?
Date: 2010-09-01 08:11 am (UTC)Overlapping windows
Date: 2010-09-02 09:36 pm (UTC)The problem I ran into is that on non-composited desktops, x11vnc would send whatever pixels were visible in the location of that window, so if another window appeared in front, that would get sent over the VNC link too. For security reasons I felt this was unacceptable.
Ultimately, I gave up on per-window sharing and just tunneled the usual whole-screen VNC over a Telepathy tube. If xzibit solves the per-window problem I'd be interested in using it in Sugar.
xzibit
Date: 2010-09-15 08:52 am (UTC)Re: xzibit
Date: 2010-09-15 11:05 am (UTC)Yes, it will integrate nicely.
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Date: 2011-09-29 05:22 pm (UTC)