“How important is roundtrip suppression for remote GUI work? To
understand its significance, we first have to grasp a few basic
mechanics of the X protocol.“The X protocol regulates communication between an X server and
an X client. The X client typically is a program that needs a GUI
to facilitate user interaction. The X server is a specialized
program that ‘draws’ that GUI and the GUIs of any other running
program onto the screen. Moreover, the X server also handles
keyboard and mouse events issued by the user and sends them back to
the X client program, which then acts on the user’s
commands…”
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