RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity for very low speed connections the VNC data transmission is superior over the X11 protocol. there is a even VNC driver for X11, aside to the regular VNC implementation which creates a second virtual display on the unix server

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is the correct list, but I'll give it a try. We're trying to move from M$ to Linux, using Netraverse via X to diskless (or minimal - like a ThinkNic) workstations. We're in proof-of-concept mode here, and are trying to serve

RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread BWeaks
: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is the correct list, but I'll give it a try. We're trying to move from M$ to Linux, using Netraverse via X to diskless (or minimal - like a ThinkNic) workstations. We're

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Jim.Gettys
X is very sensitive to latency as well; we designed X for high speed (of the day) campus scale networks. ISDN and dial up lines therefore suffer both due to limited bandwidth and large latency, not a good situation. Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with

RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity - WOW! Experts in deed.

2002-11-12 Thread BWeaks
with your suggestions to see what the results are. Thanks again. BW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ross Vandegrift Subject: Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity - WOW! Exp erts in deed.

2002-11-12 Thread Owen Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the responses! I hadn't thought of font translation in the mix. Perhaps since both of my examples internally are RH 8, this isn't as much of a problem? How often does this occur? Once per session or every time a screen has to be refreshed? I will

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:00:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with AA fonts turned on), may perform better Any way to get this benefit without actually enabling anti-aliasing? While I'm generally pleased with my

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Jim.Gettys
- On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:00:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with AA fonts turned on), may perform better Any way to get this benefit without actually enabling anti-aliasing? While I'm generally

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity - WOW! Exp erts in deed.

2002-11-12 Thread Jim.Gettys
RH 8 has much of the right stuff, but not all. I don't think they shipped a Mozilla with Xft support, though I might be wrong. There is a set of RH8 Moz rpm's up in the experimental area of the mozilla.org web site with Xft/Fontconfig support of the latest beta test: I recommend those. One of

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:36:48PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:00:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with AA fonts turned on), may perform better Any way to get this benefit without