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Re: Xnest
by Holger Benl on Tuesday 13/Nov/2001, @15:55

Have you ever tried VNC? You can do similar stuff and (a little bit) more: It's seperated into a server and a viewer that communicate via TCP/IP, so you have the same network-transparency as with X11. But there are two bonuses:
Both the server and the viewer run on Windows and MacOS as well. And: the viewer can detach from the server and the GUI programs keep running. This means you can, for example, start a desktop on a server machine and let it run forever, and use that desktop from different other machines, wherever you are... you'll never have to shut down KDE anymore, even when you're shutting down the client machine you're usually using it from.
It has to be mentioned, however, that the VNC protocol, in my experiences at least, is not as efficient as the X11 protocol and that the VNC server for windows seems to have quite some trouble (never tried it myself, but that's the impression you get from the FAQ).

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Re: Xnest
by Johnny Andersson on Tuesday 13/Nov/2001, @22:59

Yes, VNC is very useful. Actually, to me VNC often feels faster than X, at least over slow connections. I use it all the time to access Solaris-boxes over an ADSL connection.

I'd love to use it the way you describe, with one desktop running all the time, but then I'd have to use my desktop through VNC when using my computer locally too, and that has a lot of problems (no antialiased fonts, no xvideo extension, much slower update sometimes).

It'd be very useful if the Unix VNC server was able to connect to my already-running X session and let me use it on another computer, just like the Windows server does. This is also mentioned in the VNC FAQ... Anyone had any success with this?

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remote X very fast...
by Moritz Moeller-Herrmann on Wednesday 14/Nov/2001, @02:15

Actually, to me VNC often feels faster than X, at least over slow connections. I use it all the time to access Solaris-boxes over an ADSL connection.

Even faster: http://www.medialogic.it/projects/mlview/

Advantage: It uses the X protocol itself, just very weell compressed and with a pixmap cache. Has worked 100% stable for me so far.

This is what I use to work on my office machine from home. Excellent compression, good enough to be usable over ISDN! If I reduced colordepth it would probably be even better.

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