On Sunday 31 August 2003 13:47, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:39:17 -0700 > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ;) -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
