There are actually already quite a few programs/modifications to X that deal with this issue. First one that I can think of is lbxproxy (stands for 'low bandwidth X proxy'). This is fairly trivial to setup (once you know how X is working). There are other tricks that you can do as well, like tunneling apps across SSH and using compression to increase performance (although you may end up with somewhat of a performance tradeoff because of the extra work for encryption). And finally, one solution that I have not worked with (yet) is called DXPC (Differential X Protocol Compressor). I believe it uses Xnest on both ends to cache local copies of X messages among other things and so speeds up the link dramatically and also only sends those messages that are absolutely necessary to be sent, etc and compresses them if possible. There is also a Java version of DXPC, although I'm not sure what kind of performance you would attain using the Java version.
Hope that gives you some helpful starting points. Adrian Snyman wrote: >Does anyone think that the X consortium will eventually try and optomise the >Code for minmising the data exchange requirements for screen updates ?? > >I know it's a long way off from being ICA or RDP .. but surely there will be >work in this area .. > >I noticed that a lot of thin clients out there are going the Linux route on a >flash ROM/Drive .. meaning that they are stripping X to the bare bones .. >surely there must be people/organizations looking at improving the native >performance of X ? > > > > > -- Jason A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
