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...


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Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...


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