On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Have you ever worked on a slow remote session where a GUI is >>> completely impracticable (or maybe even unavailable), and redrawing >>> the screen is too expensive to do all the time? >> >> So where does the redrawing happen? The machine youre sitting on (let's >> call it 'A') and send remote commands or retrieving text files? Or the >> redrawing must be synced on both A and >> the remote machine? If so, then why so? >> How does the bandwidth implies that you must edit stuff in the console on >> A? >> And not in a nice editor with normal fonts? >> Am i missing something or your 'A' machine cannot use graphics? Even on 386 >> computers >> there was graphics and keybord&mouse input. That is definitely what I would >> want >> for editing files. Yes I've tried line by line eding back in DOS times and >> that really sucks. > > Mostly, I use an SSH session without X11 forwarding, so everything > happens on that link. Redrawing happens on "A", and the program runs > on "B". It is technologically possible to have a GUI (that's what X11 > forwarding is for), but it's a lot more fiddliness and bandwidth, and > it requires that "B" have the appropriate GUI libraries installed, so > I often don't or can't do that.
Or you could use a GUI editor that runs locally and has the capability to edit files remotely over ssh. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
