Hello! On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:47:10AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: >[...]
>> We don't all install X on hosts that are simply intended to be servers. >> What's more I regularly have to do package installs to remote hosts >> accessed over a DSL line - and if you've never tried using X under such >> circumstances then my advice is _don't bother_ -- the performance sucks >> something rotten. >Oh, you should try dxpc then. It's *not* rotten. I've used X over a modem >in the past (yes, the 56K thingy), and it was *usable*. Interesting. As I'm sometimes using remote X over a slow line, I just tried dxpc out, too. Used lbxproxy and tightvnc before. xterm was a breeze, the window was there quite fast - with lbx it took much time until the window appeared, but afterwards it was usable (but then, the same was the case for X through ssh with Compression on). tightvnc is very usable for xterm, too. gaim crashes with some BadMatch error (works through plain X via ssh, lbx and tightvnc). Konqueror works but scrolling can be slow (I guess scrolling would be faster with tightvnc). Still an interesting thing. >[...] Kind regards, Hannah. PS: Did all via ssh (with compression), of course. dxpc using -L4000:localhost:4000, lbx using the normal forwarded display to proxy onto, vncviewer with the -via option. So no loss of security on the connection with dxpc or tightvnc.
