Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: replacing X Window System ! | Date | Wed, 17 May 2006 01:15:21 +0100 |
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"Döhr, Markus ICC-H" <Markus.Doehr@siegenia-aubi.com> writes:
>> > First of all, your assumptions are incorrect. Modern versions of X >> > are not old, unoptimised, will do remote sessions, etc. >> >> Remote sessions have been there as long as the DISPLAY >> environment variable - I think even X10.4, 2 decades and more >> ago, could do that. I know that it worked just fine 18 years >> ago with X11R1 (aah... building that from source on a 25mz >> Sun3 took a little while). (Anybody know when the first >> instance of pointing 'xmelt' at another user's machine for >> amusement was? :) > [...] > > Although one has to admit that working with remote X terminals over > a SSH/WAN/VPN-connection is far from usefull,
It depends on what programs you run. Emacs runs perfectly fine over a slow modem. Firefox is usually very unhappy even on a fast LAN. In general, applications that render an image locally and send that to the X server for display will run badly over a remove connection. Apps that send text and drawing commands to the server, and let it take care of rendering run quite well.
> Microsoft´s RDP protocol does a much better job there. However, > there´s NX (http://www.nomachine.com/) and other products but out of > the box X11 it´s quite slow over higher latency connections.
RDP is more like VNC, AFAIK. It serves a different purpose.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
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