On Fri, 05 Apr 2002, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, one option is run exmh in a VNC session which can then be > > connected to. One of the exmh-users members mentioned he does this. > > I believe there's a way to run VNC over ssh. > > VNC? Ugh. Doesn't that just ship around a big pixmap of the desktop? > That would chew up bandwidth a lot more than just running exmh remotely.
I would guess bandwidth is not the problem, but rather latency. tcl/tk (aka wish, that I believe emxh is written in) is really terrible thru a remote link, not because the bandwidth is saturated, but rather all those serial ping-pong interactions with the X server. E.g. ~15 secs to map a popup menu. VNC only sends compressed diffs of the desktop, and if many of the regions are of solid color, so much the better. My guess is exmh displayed via VNC tunnelled thru ssh would have better response than exmh going thru a ssh X redir. Try it and see! I have done and continue to these sorts of things and I find them acceptable. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
