You might also be interested in Xpra, which allows X apps to be ran over ssh and "detached" such that you can connect later and "reattach." It's similar to gnu screen, but for X.
http://partiwm.org/wiki/xpra ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:27:05 -0400 >From: Sheldon Neuberger <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Remote Login: VNC vs. XDMCP vs. ??? >To: [email protected] > >>Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:15:39 -0400 >>From: Nick Cummings <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Remote Login: VNC vs. XDMCP vs. ??? >>To: [email protected] >> In the interim I installed Free NX and have been >> trying it out with NoMachine's NX Client. It seems >> to work pretty well in general. I'm not clear on >> how NX works behind the scenes, but it looks like >> Mathematica is succeptable to the same font issues >> as it does over X forwarding. I think that NX >> actually forwards compressed X commands, not image >> data, so this makes some sense. > >NX is doing more behind the scenes than just compression, making for a much >faster user experience; it reduces the number of roundtrips required to load >some programs (e.g. Firefox) by multiple orders of magnitude. The benefits of >this might not be as evident to you since you are running this on a 100mb LAN. > >You might want to also check out Google's new open source NX server: neatx. >It's rather new, so the setup is a bit convoluted, but it might offer some >advantages over the FreeNX implementation.
