"Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't see lbxproxy listed in the X.org 7.4 release. But it is in 7.3. > What is its status? > > I found docs online about LBX, but most are very old. > > xdpyinfo doesn't show any LBX extension for me (but I read online that > recent X servers include it by default).
I think even I can safely say that LBX is considered to be deprecated. Tests [1] have shown that it produces little benefit over an SSH tunnel with compression enabled. > Before I attempt to rebuild Xorg with LBX, please let me know if this is > worth my time. > > Any alternatives? > > In my case, I am trying to view hundred page PDFs over a 980 to 1361 > KB/second connection over a 802.11 wireless network. It is way too slow. > I guess a real alternative instead of remote X is to use network file > system and actually run the X client on my local X server. I have not tried LBX but I must say that SSH compression does improve performance noticably. F-D [1] http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/html/net.html _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
