[Xastir] xserver

Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at tc.fluke.com
Mon Sep 23 14:25:32 EDT 2002


On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Dick Reichenbach wrote:

> I hate to say this, but if VNC is too slow, then there is no way your
> network could handle the traffic that a real X server (or is the term
> client?) generates.

Well, there are compressed/reduced datastream methods of doing X
connections.  I haven't tried any of them though.

I've heard that VNC works ok with a DSL hookup.  I've tried it on a
dial-up and it's fairly unusable.  I definitely agree with Dick on
this one.

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