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Re: remote graphical usage
- To: erez(at-nospam)savan.com
- Subject: Re: remote graphical usage
- From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud(at-nospam)unix.simonwiesel.co.il>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:39:10 +0300
- CC: linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- In-reply-to: <3B271D6E.94EBFF85@savan.com> (message from Erez Doron on Wed, 13Jun 2001 10:59:42 +0300)
- Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:59:42 +0300, Erez Doron <erez@savan.com> wrote:
>
> I am looking of a way to have a local display/keyboard, which is
> connected on a slow channel ( i.e. modem ) to unix servers.
>
> I need a way to run X applictions on the remote server, and see them as
> they were local.
>
> I tried using X - was too slow
> I tried to use X protocol compression called 'dxpc' - still too slow
> I tried to use Xvnc - better but still not fast enough.
>
> anyone knows of a way to do so except using Citrix or X-win32-server
> over microsoft's rdesktop ?
Try to use VNC with SSH (with compression). I use it with a slow
connection (45K bits), mostly for text on X (Emacs and xmessage), It
works nicely. For graphical applications (I use 16 bpp) it is too slow
(loading of image is OK but moving an image or working with Netscape
is very irritating).
Ehud.
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