On 4 Nov 2002, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 23:49, Craig O'Shannessy wrote: > > I have tried VNC for Linux, but it gives you sloppy feeling X > > performance on the local machine. Does anyone know of anything that > > works like VNC for windows (e.g. only has a performance hit for remote > > users, rather than local and remote users.) > > Have you tried specifying the encoding to use on the xvncviewer command > line? The default encoding for local viewing should be raw, which I > found acceptable for most uses (probably not quake, though ;-). But try > running "xvncviewer -encodings raw", or check the xvcnviewer man page > for a list of other encodings to try.
Yeah, raw is usable, but still it's an ugly way to work if you are at your own desk 95% of the time. > > > > Yeah, there is something for this, and I keep forgetting the name of it.. > > > if you ask on the SLUG list, some people on there know the name of it > > Just stumbled across another rfb package that looks like it does exactly > what you want: http://www.hexonet.de/software/rfb/ Hmm, this does indeed look like what I'm looking for, thanks, I'll check it out tonight and post back to the list. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
