on Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For months now, while I'm at work, I've been running a couple programs > in SSH, displaying on my computer at work. Now I'm curious if I can > do something similar to get a KDM login on my home box. > > Using knoppix at work, sid at home.
Likely. But I'd ask why. First: X is a network-transparent system, meaning you can run an application, or your entire session, over the net. That said, there are some good reasons for keeping at least bits of your X session local. In particular, the window manager. Mostly for performance reasons. Even over a high speed network, you're going to have both latency and bandwidth effects. And even if your _net_ latency is low, and bandwidth is high, periodic network "burps", etc., can gum up the works. My recommendation: run a locally managed X session. Run the remote apps you must run via an ssh tunnel, launching them from a remote shell with an appropriate DISPLAY value. If you *must* run a remotely managed session, look into ssh compression and lbxproxy (the low-bandwidth X proxy). They'll help somewhat. And note that there are environments which translate better to remote X than others. Particularly twm, fvwm, blackbox, fluxbox, and xfce. My own preference, WindowMaker, generates a heck of a lot of network traffic (mostly dock apps). It's a pig over DSL, and, well, when I tried it over a 56K dialup, it worked....after about 15 minutes startup.... I'd strongly discourage use of GNOME or KDE over a remote connection. VNC will do you better here. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Windows Refund Day II: fight for your right to refund http://www.windowsrefund.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
