Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

["Toby 'qubit' Cubitt" <tsc25@cantab.net>]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:26:00PM +0200, Rick van Hattem wrote:
> On Saturday 01 April 2006 23:47, Jim wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > > alexander@blatt /var/db/pkg $ epm -qf `which xmkmf `
> > > imake-1.0.1-r1
> > >
> > > Please file a bug against tightvnc, as it's missing
> > > a dependency.
> >
> > Will do.
> >
> > > BTW: Why use tightvnc at all? Realvnc 4 is as fast in
> > > my experience and there's still somebody workign on it -
> > > seeing that the last update to tightvnc is dated
> > > July 2005, I doubt that anybody maintains it anymore.
> >
> > I am testing out the different vnc versions along with freeNX to see
> > what will give me the fastest remote desktop.
> >
> > > Alexander Skwar
> >
> > Jim
> When you're done testing please report/publish the results, I'm also very 
> interested in a fast remote desktop system.
> 
> Tightvnc can hog the cpu with the compression sometimes so that's not always a 
> good solution either.

I've tried tightVNC and freeNX, both over a relatively slow DSL link
and on an old pentium2 450, and whilst both were usable there's no
competition: freeNX wins hands down.

I also like the fact that freeNX also lets you run single remote
applications, instead of always having to start up a complete remote
desktop - much closer to normal X-forwarding.

The only downside to freeNX was it was more complicated to get
working. (But that may have been due to the complicated things I was
trying to do: everything had to be tunnelled through a firewall using
ssh port-forwarding, and I needed to get my X server to talk to a
remote font server, also via ssh tunnelling, so that fonts on the
application I was running over freeNX would work.)

HTH,

Toby
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