Re: Remote X

2010-02-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 23:33 -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote: In theory, sure, but I don't think I've ever seen anybody actually have any problems with this. In my experience the glyph cache is actually too big sometimes; when doing 3D drivers, if I accidentally clobber my cache, I need to go open

Remote X

2010-02-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded as a design goal, or does everyone just develop for client applications that only run on or close to the X server machine? With a unicode text widget, every time a character is entered, the line or paragraph(s) need to be

Re: Remote X

2010-02-02 Thread Patrick O'Donnell
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:18:01 +1100 From: Russell Shaw rjs...@netspace.net.au User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) Sender: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded as a design goal, or does everyone just develop

Re: Remote X

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded as a design goal, or does everyone just develop for client applications that only run on or close to the X server machine? With a unicode text widget, every

Re: Remote X

2010-02-02 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 01:18 +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: With a cursive font, all the cursive glyphs on a line could compress when the line is close to full, but before the need for a linebreak. I wasn't aware that there were any toolkits that were powerful enough to do this, assuming you had an

Re: Remote X

2010-02-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Patrick O'Donnell wrote: Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:18:01 +1100 From: Russell Shaw rjs...@netspace.net.au User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) Sender: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org Is remote execution of X clients away from the X server still regarded as a design

Re: LBX? or faster remote X?

2008-11-04 Thread François-Denis Gonthier
case, I am trying to view hundred page PDFs over a 980 to 1361 KB/second connection over a 802.11 wireless network. It is way too slow. I guess a real alternative instead of remote X is to use network file system and actually run the X client on my local X server. I have not tried LBX but I

Re: LBX? or faster remote X?

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I don't see lbxproxy listed in the X.org 7.4 release. But it is in 7.3. What is its status? Deprecated. I found docs online about LBX, but most are very old. xdpyinfo doesn't show any LBX extension for me (but I read online that recent X servers include it by

Re: LBX? or faster remote X?

2008-11-04 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:31:50PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Any alternatives? NBX Maybe you mean NX? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology Sorry, yes. Joerg ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: LBX? or faster remote X?

2008-11-04 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:13:47PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I don't see lbxproxy listed in the X.org 7.4 release. But it is in 7.3. What is its status? It is dead. Any alternatives? NBX Maybe you mean NX?

Re: LBX? or faster remote X?

2008-11-04 Thread James Cloos
Jeremy == Jeremy C Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy I am curious why SSH protocol 2 doesn't use the CompressionLevel? The rough consensus was that the difference in bandwith savings vs cpu/ ram savings wasn't enough to bother with anything other than level 6. They may also have been some

Re: LBX? or faster remote X?

2008-11-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:37:43AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Keith Jim's 2003 Usenix paper suggests ssh with compression beats LBX in most cases: http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/ They lie, *especially* for slow links. However, NX is a vastly superior alternative to