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> I thought X11 forwarding was well and truly a thing of the past.

Am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

That's kind of the whole point of using X, the primary use case.

X forwarding over SSH always struck me as a bit of an edge case. I used it maybe 5 times in the last 20 years. Most people probably never knew this was a thing.

I use it every day all day ever since it was introduced in ssh (can't remember when). Before that used to just forward in plaintext over the network (different times).

When I explain this to people, they are usually very surprised.

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