On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:45:39 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> On 13/09/2011 05:50 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 9/13/2011 3:42, Invisible wrote:
>>> I'm told it requires spending hours editing the X configuration files
>>> to set up authentication and so forth, and then to make sure the
>>> server is
>>> started, and then to tell the application you want to run to open on
>>> the remote machine rather than the local one (by using CLI options
>>> that vary for
>>> every individual program so you have to look them up), and then...
>>
>> You're about 10 to 15 years out of date.
>>
>> Back when 256 colors was a high-end graphics card, this is how it
>> worked.
> 
> So what changed then? Certainly X hasn't changed since prehistoric
> times...

Other than going from XFree86 to Xorg and apparently an entire 
configuration system rewrite that makes the configuration you remember 
not necessary any more.

Jim

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