Re: Logging into X remotely
From: Elie De Brauwer (elie.de.brauwer_at_pandora.be)
Date: 08/31/03
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To: Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:59:03 +0200
On Sunday 31 August 2003 13:47, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:39:17 -0700
>
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> > XDMCP would be easier and better on bandwidth (thus faster). VNC is
> > good when you need to display something graphical on a platform that
> > never anticipated multiuser, networked environments (namely, MS Windows).
>
> This is not entirely true. GTK2 apps dog very badly over X whereas
> with VNC the speed is acceptable. Prime examples are XChat and Pan. Both
> are related to scrolling.
>
> In Pan paging up or down in the article listing takes 1-2 seconds to
> redraw under X. W/VNC (well, TightVNC, Hextile, no compression) it is
> nearly instantaneous.
>
> XChat also lags badly when scrolling the channel view. Under X when
> there is quick chatter you'll get jerky 1/2-page scrolls. VNC (same as
> above) it is almost as smooth as having the client on the local machine.
>
> I've done both and settled on TightVNC (server and client) because of
> the above issues as well as the ability to access my desktop from multiple
> machines w/o shutting it down and restarting. Most of the time my laptop's
> got the display up but sometimes I want to just work on the main machine
> (larger screen, nicer input devices, access to sound, etc) and fire VNC up
> there in a shared session to take over. Of course I was (and still am) a
> heavy screen user so there might be a precedent set there years ago. :)
I'm currently working via remote X on my normal computer since my girlfriend
has claimed my desk for study purposes. I'm currently on her portable booted
using a knoppix cd and now remote X'ing on my regular machine and if I
wouldn't know better I would say I were working live on that machine. On the
6 houres that my session is open i consumed approximately 200 megabyte of
traffic over an 10mbit lan.
I have no problems with applications like pan here. Everything works nice the
only disadvantage remote X has is that you just can't jump in into a session
that was open before.
And if I use vnc on the same configuration and if I compare than remote X
wins.
my 2 cents ;)
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