I went with guacamole actually and it's quick enough for what i need. I have encryption and compression both set to max and the tomcat instance is serving it over SSL. But thanks for the advice!
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Chris <plug....@2nerds.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:16 AM, S. Dale Morrey <sdalemor...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> So I've decided to go with an RDP or VNC tunneled over SSH. >> > > If you happen to use TightVNC's vncviewer and your desktop seems painfully > slow over vnc, be mindful of the encoding method negotiated by the server > and client. > > I've been running vnc sessions over ssh tunnels for years and suffered for > many moons before I noticed that "raw" is vncviewer's default encoding > method for local connections--which an ssh tunnel appears to be. Raw is > great for real local connections because it avoids useless > compression/decompression overhead, but it's about the worst possible > choice for a vnc session that goes over a network. (This information is in > the man page but it's buried so deep that I didn't notice it for a > painfully long time.) > > When running over a tunneled connection, I now launch vncviewer with the > "-encodings copyrect tight" option, which forces it to prefer encoding > algorithms that are the defaults for non-local connections. > > Not sure if this applies to vnc clients other than TightVNC. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
