Nuitari [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
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Sat, 26 May 2007 17:47:36 -0400:
Is it possible to run a complete Gnome desktop from a remote
location through ssh? I'm not talking about using vnc to watch a
remote desktop but actually run one remotely and only have it
displayed here.
SSH also includes functionality to allow X11 forwarding through the
encrypted SSH connection.
You'll need a fast (100mbps+) lan for it, even with the ssh compression
enabled.
I've not done it and don't know the details of the protocol, so can't
really argue from the practical end, but if it requires that, how'd they
ever do it back in the day, before XFree86, let alone xorg? Back then,
10Mbps Ethernet would have been fast, 2 Mbps would have been standard,
let alone dialup. Sure, screen sizes were smaller back then, but that
much?
BTW, from what I've read, it's generally 2D and possibly unaccelerated 3D
only. Accelerated 3D generally makes use of DRI or other direct
rendering client to hardware, not over the socket, so not over the net.
As I said, tho, I've no first hand experience, so I'm just going by what
I've read. It's also possible that AIGLX (Accelerated Indirect GLX), a
relatively new development, might have changed that. If so and that's
what you were talking about, yeah, I can imagine /that/ might take some
bandwidth.
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