Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:07:18 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: running a graphical application over ssh - where is rendering done? Message-ID: <201508200907.t7K97ITO033940@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
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If I conect from my laptop to a server via ssh -XY, and then launch a 3D graphical application on the server, and view the results back on my laptop, which side is doing the rendering? I naively assumed that rendering is done where the graphical program is running, i.e. on the remote server, and what is sent over the network is just a screen at a time. If that were true, then the graphical hardware on my laptop should not matter. However, I now realise that a lot depend on the laptop graphical hard/software, e.g. mesa. So does the graphical application send the data over the network back to my laptop, where I render it using the local resources? Is there any control over where the rendering is actually done? Thanks Anton
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