On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 5:58 am, Alexander Gottwald wrote: <snip> > VNC is not the better solution. It grab parts of the picture _after_ they > were drawn. X11 sends the drawing commands across network. There was always > a VNC client for windows which allowed access to a unix session. But as > this is far from being fast someone started building a xserver for windows. > > VNC requires much higher bandwidth than X11 and will fail on fast changes > of the display content. >
As a VNC user who runs Linux and home to control a Windows NT machine at work, and finds the performance less than satisfactory even with ADSL both ends, I would be very interested in the 'X client wrapper for Win apps' idea. I suspect the performance would be subtantially better (assuming decent optimisation and caching). As far as I can tell, Radmin (http://www.radmin.com) is a commercial product that uses the GDI hook idea, and if you believe its marketing, it outperforms all other (windows) remote control software by a significant margin. Unfortunately, it is only Windows-Windows. Anyway, I think that something that allows Windows apps to be easily displayed on Xservers (other than VNC) would be a really good thing. Particularly if just the application could be displayed as opposed to the entire desktop. It opens up all sorts of possibilities, in the same way that a rootless mode does. I would like to see this happen and would be happy to test! :-) Rasjid.
