-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> You could also try Xnest, which runs a second X-server within a window > of > the primary X-server, Yes, this is a good idea... > except without most of the extra overhead of VNC ...but I'm not sure if this overhead is noticeable in normal case. I have just tried to watch film on xvncviewer (same computer, i.e. no network except localhost) and it was watchable in full screen (800x550 emulated in window) and even more so when I switched mplayer to window mode. Quake2 also was running quite nicely in 640x400. BTW, I am using TightVNC and my cpu is Athlon underclocked down to 900 MHz (well, I've decided full 1.8 GHz scared me a lot and besides, who needs it to run so fast? and why they don't make 7.14 MHz computers anymore?). Of course, in terms of cpu cycles, mplayer and Xvnc together took about 35% of CPU in top, while mplayer on real X took only about 3-5% due to the gfx card doing all the work (seemingly). So the overhead is indeed quite big. For a "simple app with few menus", the choice probably doesn't matter anyway. > Cheers, > Kyle Moffett Regards, Tomasz Rola - -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBQgWX2RETUsyL9vbiEQKLVACgsZeOt11+VUICCITjMBQX9ZTrCQQAoPHa 58IkuL68hTKtZTrQdi70DYV9 =FIkn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/