-XC will enable X11 Forwarding and add compression, and works okay for one-off application usage. But since X11 is not optimized for low speed connections, it can be painfully slow otherwise.
I prefer NX for full desktop presentation. For anything else, tunneling it through SSH is awesome since it doesn't add a lot of overhead and removes much of the data leak prevention concerns associated with other protocols. -- Gilbert Mendoza PGP: 0x075DBCA9 Email: gmendoza at gmail.com http://www.savvyadmin.com https://launchpad.net/~gmendoza https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GilbertMendoza On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know what Paul's aim is but the -X flag for ssh is great for running > one program over the network, specially a lan. I've been in environments > with x-term thin clients and have used the -X option to get programs from a > server that wasn't hosting my x-term session. That is a good example of it's > use. I'm not sure how well ssh x-windows thing works over the internet and > if the data is compressed. If the data is compressed, I bet the extra bytes > the encryption puts on takes away any advantages from compression. > > If you want a whole desktop, and you are doing it over the internet, > something like freenx is what you need. I haven't played arround with RDP on > the windows side that much, but I bet freenx performs just as well as RDP on > limited bandwith connections. > > Chris >
