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Wayland does not support network transparency because you're supposed to use a VNC server. Making the X protocol network-transparent worked because draw commands don't make for much traffic, but today you'd be hard-pressed to find any X application that does not just send entire bitmaps (or rather, OpenGL textures) to the X server. It's similar to how Mac OS moved away from a PostScript-based display architecture, if my knowledge of Mac OS history is to be trusted.

Having said that, I don't know if there are working VNC implementations for Wayland. Due to Wayland's security architecture, a VNC server (or any other thing that grabs screen contents) requires permission from (and thus cooperation with) the compositor.



GNOME and KDE have working support for remote desktop. Weston supports RDP. Sway (and other wlroots-based compositors) have been working on protocols to support it.


Mac OS never had any PostScript-based display architecture, NeXTStep and Sun Views did.

OS X replaced PostScript with Quartz, which uses a PDF like architecture.




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