On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:43, James Sparenberg wrote: ... > I do this with VNC all the time. My desktop runs tight vnc but only > inits to run level 3 ... then from work etc I can get into it no > problem. > > > PS rfbdrake and Remote Desktop Connection both provide access this way > ... and it's a heck of a lot less bandwidth hungry than normal X. > ...
ooh boy, a religious war! heh-heh :-) Actually VNC does use less bandwidth, but X is still more responsive for me, even over relatively low-bandwidth high-latency links, because X isn't doing the screen scrape and poll-my-mouse crud. Now if you're using a pixmapped theme and the pixmaps are all on the other end of a modem... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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