playing around with remote x sessions

[Christian Leber]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:16:30AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> i finally got a remote x session working (using xnest)!  its been something 
> ive been trying to do for a long time now.  is there a resource out there 
> where i can learn if there are any ways to tune or tweak the performance?  
> sometimes, just wagging a window around by its title bar, can pull 20mbit.

A Simple method is using compression over ssh for example.
More advanced and much besser is of course nomachine/freenx.
 
> and btw, just incase someone asks why i would use xnest instead of something 
> like vnc..., its becuase the remote computer is an unattended server.

Yes...?!?
Xvnc is also just a X server like xnest.

Regards
Christian Leber

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