On 11/23/11 3:49 PM, Eric Appleman wrote: > Also, is there any way to apply the Turbo optimizations to x11vnc or > x0vncserver?
To answer your first question, there isn't a way to attach TurboVNC to a running X server. The TurboVNC Unix Server (Xvnc) is a fully virtual X server, so each instance creates its own virtual framebuffer. It requires a lot more than just drivers or redirecting the protocol to attach to a real X server. RealVNC and its children (including TigerVNC) generally accomplish this by plugging directly into the X server as a module, but that requires separately supporting every single X server code base out there and making distribution-specific builds that utilize a specific version of X.org. x11vnc takes a different approach, which is to intelligently read back pixels from the server periodically, compare them for changes, and send the results. x11vnc is the best at what it does, but it's still going to have a lot more overhead than Xvnc, because it's using the CPU to actively poll the X server for changes. Xvnc, on the other hand, is fully integrated, so it knows whenever applications have drawn something, and it can use this knowledge to determine when to send changes to connected clients. All of that aside, there is a TurboVNC extension for x11vnc: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3394218&group_id=32584&atid=405860 It hasn't been accepted into the upstream codebase yet, nor have the developers even bothered to comment on it, but it should work. Give it a try. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
