Re: FVWM: fvwm3?

On Sat, 2024-02-03 at 13:53 +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, Robert Heller wrote:
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> > Afterall, no one needs more then one computer...
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> I suppose there is a smiley missing after the sentence :-)
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> My usual way of working (post-COVID, from home) involves usually one or=
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> two ssh sessions on two different remote work machines. Quite occasionall=
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> I also activate a VNC viewer with a remote session of a VNC server on one=
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> of the work machines, and run X stuff there. Occasionally I also run a=
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> point-to-point VPN work-home and NFS mount over it, I rsync stuff from=
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> work to home, work on it at home, and rsync back when finished. Very=20
> rarely I edit work files over remote X, and even more rarely over remote=
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> NFS, but that's because I think my connection is low for that.
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> At work I used regularly edit across machines over NFS, ssh and=20
> occasionally remote X (but all machines are on a LAN ... some on differen=
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> VLANs and I have even expect gatewayed scripts to bypass that)

Wireguard works wonders; if set up correctly, it makes no difference
if you're at home or at work.  NFS only needs a stable connection; if
you have that, you can use cachefilesd to make it faster.  If your
connection isn't stable NFS will suck.

For X stuff you can use xrdp.  RDP is way faster then VNC.

> Independently of all that, I've never considered switching to wayland, an=
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> do not think any colleague does. Our recent standard installation at work=
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> is Xubuntu (it used to be OpenSuse), and I had it mimicked on both the=
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> home desktop (20.04) and home laptop (22.04) ... first thing I did was to=
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> imstall also fvwm, and then run my good old .fvwmrc with the Minimum=20
> Necessary Change.

Ugh, Ubuntu ... Wayland is default in Fedora since a while, and I've
been reading it's default in Debian as well (but is that true?).

> I hope to be able to go on with Xorg until I live.

Or use wayland and start living now :)  Living in the past seldwhen is
a good idea.