On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:13:40 -0500
"Karl J. Runge" <ru...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Pierre Ossman <oss...@cendio.se> wrote:
> > 
> > The downside to this is a potential increase in bandwidth. I'm not sure
> > there is one in practice though.
> 
> It's not clear to me how the choice would affect network bandwidth
> usage because the vnc client normally selects the bpp and depth, right?
> 

Silly me. You're of course correct.

So this furthers my cause. vncviewer picks the color depth of the local
screen (commonly 24), so it is just a lot of extra CPU overhead for us
to have anything else on the server.

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