On 2012-11-04, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > It will work if you have an X-server on your Android tablet. > > But I doubt you have an X-Server on your Android tablet. > > Are you understanding what I am saying? Do you know what an X-server is? > > It is not VNC, RDP, nx, newmachine or anything else; it is itself, the > thing that KDE and Gnome run on. > > Android does not ship with an X-server. > >> But even if it did, it would be very, very slow. > > Not necessarily.
Not for trivial applications like xterm. But if that's all you need then an ssh client like connectbot is _way_ simpler. While xterm will work fine, in my experience anything built on a modern GUI "desktop" is utterly useless over any connection slower than 100MB. Starting up something like Thunderbird over a 2MB remote connection takes forever (minutes). Every mouse action takes several seconds to register. Keystrokes take many seconds to process. The authors of modern X frameworks have decided do depend on the assumption that the X server is local and a few thousand round-trips between client and server in order to handle a single user input event can be handled in an instant and therefore isn't something to worry about. -- Grant
