Hannah Schroeter wrote:
Hello!
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:47:10AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
[...]
We don't all install X on hosts that are simply intended to be servers.
What's more I regularly have to do package installs to remote hosts
accessed over a DSL line - and if you've never tried using X under such
circumstances then my advice is _don't bother_ -- the performance sucks
something rotten.
Oh, you should try dxpc then. It's *not* rotten. I've used X over a modem
in the past (yes, the 56K thingy), and it was *usable*.
Interesting. As I'm sometimes using remote X over a slow line, I just
tried dxpc out, too. Used lbxproxy and tightvnc before.
xterm was a breeze, the window was there quite fast - with lbx it took
much time until the window appeared, but afterwards it was usable (but
then, the same was the case for X through ssh with Compression on).
tightvnc is very usable for xterm, too.
gaim crashes with some BadMatch error (works through plain X via ssh,
lbx and tightvnc).
Konqueror works but scrolling can be slow (I guess scrolling would be
faster with tightvnc).
Still an interesting thing.
[...]
Kind regards,
Hannah.
PS: Did all via ssh (with compression), of course. dxpc using
-L4000:localhost:4000, lbx using the normal forwarded display to proxy
onto, vncviewer with the -via option. So no loss of security on the
connection with dxpc or tightvnc.
aanriot@ has a partial port of NX. People looking for efficient remote X
solutions should really look at this and help him finishing this port.
If you don't know what NX is, look at <http://www.nomachine.com/> and
<http://www.nomachine.com/developers.php>.
--
Matthieu Herrb
