"Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie at wookimus.net> wrote: > > [...] The people at AT&T Bell Laboratories felt that X was a bit fat > for pushing down narrow network connections -- they were right -- and > that there had to be a better way to display a remote desktop. And > there's the key difference: remote v.s. local. Actually, X is a pretty low-bandwidth protocol. The problem is that it requires a very low-latency link to be very useful. There's a program called mlview-dxpc that will cache information locally at the client and server so many of the latency problems go away, and it allows X to work pretty well even on modem links.. Thanks to aggressive message caching and many other optimizations, the overall compression ratio can go from 10:1 to 400:1. An average session, browsing the Internet, handling e-mails and coding in C++ results in a fairly satisfactory 60:1, with bitrates in the order of 2/4 KB per second. Most important, mlview-dxpc leverages the existing Xnest X agent to cut network round-trips to zero ...from http://www.medialogic.it/projects/mlview/ The program is pretty rough around the edges. It was a bit of a pain to set up the last time I checked, though I know many folks were interested in integrating it with ssh/sshd, so it's possible that it will become a transparent enhancement at some point. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ ...In 24-bit Color! / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020215/128343d1/attachment.pgp