Adi Stav wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:59:42AM +0300, Erez Doron wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am looking of a way to have a local display/keyboard, which is
> > connected on a slow channel ( i.e. modem ) to unix servers.
> >
> > I need a way to run X applictions on the remote server, and see them as
> > they were local.
> >
> > I tried using X - was too slow
> > I tried to use X protocol compression called 'dxpc' - still too slow
> > I tried to use Xvnc - better but still not fast enough.
> >
> > anyone knows of a way to do so except using Citrix or X-win32-server
> > over microsoft's rdesktop ?
>
> >From what I've seen a big hit on networked X performance is sophisticated
> toolkits. GTK+ applications for example take ages to load and to run,
> while old Athena programs are (relatively) quick. I suspect that this
> might have to do with applications loading images onto the X server,
> and that playing around with GTK themes and engines might help, but
> I've never verified this. So I'd suggest trying using simpler X
> applications if this is an option.
>
I do not want to restrict people to a certain type of apps
>
> By the way, why do you expect that using a different X server
> (X-win32-server) would make it faster? I am not familiar with this server.
No, the X-win32-server ( e.g. excced, Xwin32 etc ... ) is only to make the
win32 X aware
the 'remote' is using the rdesktop that comes with Win2k servers ...
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