Hi James,
I'll take a new round-up trying to optimise VNC and see what
happens. Anyway, X -query offers me a very good solution, even to 3D
modelling.
Since I do my experiments at home before implementing at work,
what I got now is good enough to work. However, at home, some computers
have TV card and we have cable tv just to one. I tried but I couldn't
watch TV via VNC or importing X and I can figure out why (pci bus, overlay
or something like this ...?). However, does anyone have any idea of how
to achieve it? But don't bother yourself too much, it's just for fun now.
MDK 9.0 is wonderful. BTW GNU/Linux is always fun!
Cheers,
On 25 Oct 2002, James Sparenberg wrote:
> If you found VNC to be slow try the tightVNC that MDK is now putting on
> it's disks. I've been using it for about a year. In fact I'm typing
> this e-mail on my desktop from the living room via VNC right now. No
> problems with speed at all. What I have found is.
>
> Over the net DON'T use kde or Gnome as your wm use ICE or some other
> lightweight wm.
> Don't do true color 16 bit is best.
> Ideal situation is linux ---> or Linux---> windows. Windows --> Linux
> tends to crash Windows.
>
> Plan on about 32 megs per user minimum of ram + 64 for the base OS so
> that a 128meg ram system would only be good for 1 console and 2 remote
> users. (This is assuming you are using ICE or it's equiv + tightVNC)
>
> I've found also that 128kbps upstream is the minimum bandwidth needed
> per user for "Just like being there" response. (Although using it over a
> 56k connection does work just feels like an old 386) Over a 100Mbps Lan
> it really sings.
>
> The speed with which the page refreshes is directly related to the
> quality of the video card of the box you are on. Not the box you are
> coming from. So it's best to not try to run a VNC session from a 386
> 12mhz with a 1meg video card (Although I've run the client on a 486
> 100mhz CPU and found ICE to be pretty responsive although VNC does tend
> to max out the CPU a lot when doing full page refreshes.
>
> Set your VNC to not export the remote cursor. It saves an amazing
> amount of bandwidth.
>
> James
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:59, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> > Hi! Thank you very much.
> >
> > I played with VNC before and found out it a litle bit slow. Since
> > I used LTSP once, such solution is really great.
> >
> > On 25 Oct 2002, ddc_prueba wrote:
> >
> > > Easy ;-)
> > >
> > > As far as you say, the ones that will "lend" their desktops are already
> > > ready as you can do it through Windows+XWin32 so all you need is to
> > > "configure" the "remote-clients". So just start X on "remote-clients"
> > > with query option:
> > >
> > > X -query <host> & (being <host> the IP/name of the main box)
> > >
> > >
> > > Just FYI: the remote that connects to "the main box" is an X-server and
> > > "the main box" is the client in X terms (just think who is the one that
> > > requests the service of drawing something and who actually does the job
> > > by drawing it...). Curious, isn't it? ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Another option you can use (both in Linux and on Windows) is to use VNC.
> > > Tightvnc is a good option as you can connect from a native client or
> > > even connect to it throught a Browser (Netscape, IE, Konqueror, ...) and
> > > you can share desktops or "cut" the wire and some days later connect to
> > > it again and go on where you were...
> > >
> > > Play and enjoy ;-))
> > >
> > >
> > > El vie, 25-10-2002 a las 16:33, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva escribió:
> > > > Hi List,
> > > >
> > > > Here in our lab we still have some windoze boxes and they use
> > > > X-Win32 from Starnet to access our Linux boxes (XDMCP). We also have some
> > > > clean Linux box too and I would like to use such idea of importing X (with
> > > > KDM and so on, like LTSP and X-Wind32 do) for these clean Linux boxes
> > > > (they can use X by startx).
> > > > So, could someone suggest me how to import X from my full Linux
> > > > box server to these clean Linux boxes? Any idea would be very welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > -----------------------
> > > > Alan Wilter S. da Silva
> > > > -----------------------
> > > > Laboratório de Física Biológica
> > > > Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
> > > > Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
> > > > Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----
> > > >
> > >
> > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> > >
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------
> > Alan Wilter S. da Silva
> > -----------------------
> > Laboratório de Física Biológica
> > Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
> > Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
> > Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
> >
> >
> > ----
> >
>
> > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
>
>
>
>
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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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Laboratório de Física Biológica
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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