Is there a lightweight GUI protocol like X11 that works well over ssh?

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Remote X11 apps are slow unless running over a Gigabit LAN, and I'm looking for a protocol somewhere between ANSI escape codes and Postscript programs, that enables rendering graphical UI widgets and windows sent by a remote process over SSH to the local X11 server.

Can I somehow seamlessly redirect connections from remote GUI processes to a local process that processes these Postscript-like requests and outputs X11 requests to the local server ? Normal X11 forwarded connections go directly to the local $DISPLAY socket which expects verbose, high-bandwidth X11 requests.

I think Plan 9 had something like this but I can't find any reference at the moment. VS Code also has a clever approach where it serves HTML+JS from the SSH remote.

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