Re: [sugar] x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-23 Thread Jim Gettys
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 20:56 -0500, Ian Daniher wrote: To be honest, I've had the best luck with microsoft terminal services in so far as the thin client area goes - I use my XO day to day with my school's remote desktop server and it works flawlessly - the fonts are a bit tiny, but it works

Re: [sugar] x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-23 Thread scott
Hi All, Pardon my lack of experience with the XO... was supposed to get 2 of them with the original G1G1 program, but that apparently did not work out. Does the XO have a standard ethernet interface? If so, and if that interface does PXE, it would make an admirable LTSP terminal when connected

[sugar] x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-22 Thread Arjun Sarwal
I ran x11vnc server on my Ubuntu desktop, used vncviewer from the XOs to connect to the machine. I have two XOs that I am testing it with. The performance seems reasonable. Upon having a look I see that the screen on the XOs refreshes once about every one second. I was wondering if someone could

Re: [sugar] x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-22 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 08:52:12PM +0530, Arjun Sarwal wrote: I was wondering if someone could comment on the performance when I have about 30 X0s connected to the same ? Maybe a refresh once every 15 seconds? I've just tried this. Ran x11vnc -viewonly -shared -forever on a Debian desktop,

Re: [sugar] x11vnc and vncviewer for classroom

2008-11-22 Thread Ian Daniher
To be honest, I've had the best luck with microsoft terminal services in so far as the thin client area goes - I use my XO day to day with my school's remote desktop server and it works flawlessly - the fonts are a bit tiny, but it works with no noticeable speed difference between it and a