Patrick O'Donnell wrote: >> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:18:01 +1100 >> From: Russell Shaw <rjs...@netspace.net.au> >> User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) >> Sender: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org >> >> Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded >> as a design goal, or does everyone just develop for client applications >> that only run on or close to the X server machine? > > I sure hope it is. I typically run X clients on a variety of machines > close and far. It's one of the reasons I like (and depend on) X. At > the moment I have windows open on six different machines: the local > workstation, one on a LAN, four over a VPN to a data center. Three of > the latter display at least in part by transferring pixmap data. > Network round-trip latency to the data center is about 20-23 ms at the > moment.
Ok. I will keep it as a priority. Other widget toolkits can be pretty slow over networks i have found. I've wondered if they even bother thinking about performance over networks. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg