Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:52:03AM -0700, Tovar wrote:
> >
> > It works great on the local X server, an amazing hack! It just doesn't
> > work remotely, probably because of the bitmap mapping magic to achieve
> > X Windows compatability. I'm not complaining it not working, i would
> > just like to have shown the folks at work a Mac screen over a dialup
> > connection under X Windows, especially given how annoying 'PC Anywhere'
> > is to me.
>
> mol at least in 0.53 would check for a $DISPLAY variable and if it
> existed it would use windowed mode connecting to the X server listed
> in the DISPLAY variable. i was able to get a mol screen on my x86 box
> running X. but even over my 10Mb lan it was HIDEOUSLY slow, the color
> was screwed up (everything in macos had a yellow tinge over it, like
> the gamma was wrong) and the keyboard didn't work, probably because
> mol 0.53 is hardcoded to expect adb keycodes and it would obviously
> get i386 keycodes from my x86 box.
>
> its odd that it was so slow, i can run every other X program over the
> network and not even notice the difference, ive done this with mozilla
> even and well mozilla is about the slowest bloated hog you can get
> asside from {star,open}office ;-)
Mozilla is still kind of a native X app while MOL will probably shove pixmaps
over the wire like hell. X isn't very effective for that. Might be better over
SSH with compression.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
