On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:29:04PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Ehud Karni wrote: > > >I know for sure that it is possible, although I never done that. There > >is a way to run VNC as inetd service. Just google for it (e.g. > >http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/cgi-bin/fom?_recurse=1&file=65 ). > > > > > > > Thanks. > > >I'm not sure it is `lighter' than X, I thing it needs more resources > >(It is both the X client AND server). It really depends on the window > >manager you use (I use `twm', which is really light, with VNC). > > > > > It is lighter on client load, and somewhat on network load. These are > the major factors that come into play in my setup.
However you can save much more by making the desktop run on the local station and only applications run from a remote X server. In this case you reduce network traffic by simply not transmitting anything over the wire. And you can get some basic compression by compressin everything using ssh. (I haven't yet gotten X's lbproxy to work) VNC forces you to run whole desktop sessions. VNC also doesn't always keeps timely updates of changing screen parts. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
