We already have, it's called Wayland.

pvdebbe · on Dec 27, 2016

I didn't know Wayland now supports displays/controls over TCP? That was anyways the parent commenter's point I think.

cyphar · on Dec 27, 2016

> I didn't know Wayland now supports displays/controls over TCP?

Ah, yeah. The design of Wayland is such that compositors have to implement it -- because Wayland doesn't know enough about the state of the desktop to be able to efficiently relay the information (it would be like VNC).