Re: [XFree86] Using X remotely

2003-11-21 Thread Keith Tang
I'm on a connection which typically runs less than 150kbps and remote X operation is tolerable. Starting an application takes 10 seconds rather than the normal 1 second, but once running the graphics updates are less than half second intervals. This is using a normal telnet session. No secure

Re: [XFree86] Using X remotely

2003-11-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Scharf Yuval wrote: At home I have an ADSL connection (750 kbps / 96kbps) My university has a very good connection. If I try to use a graphical application remotely it runs very slow. It takes dozens of seconds to start and everything take lots of

Re: [XFree86] Using X remotely

2003-11-17 Thread devzero
hi ! you can and you SHOULD use ssh for that purpose. it gives you - security - performance gain because of optional compression of the datastream read the ssh documentation and watch out for X11 tunneling and compression options of ssh. If you are windows user, then i would recommend using