Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:00:29PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
Running applications.
That shouldn't make it slow, X is window-oriented, instead of just-take-a-jpeg-of-the-screen-and-cram-it-over-the-network-oriented.
Unfortunately as of a few months ago anything built on GTK2 was just sucking. I'd open up Pan and try to scroll through the article list only to have each update take 2-3s under X on the LAN (100mb) while VNC was doing the same in literally a blink of an eye. XChat was the same way any time the screen needed to scroll. There was a third application, I forget what it was now, that had the same results.
What are you doing that is making VNC so slow?
Anything.
Which compression algorithm are you using? I've noticed that if you're using tight on both ends and use the tight compression it is at least as bad as X is. Hextile seems to do quite well. For the LAN I turn off compression and JPEG compression. Granted it has been a while since I have used X. VNC works just fine.
FYI the X desktop is running KDE (unstable) on a PIII-650 w/768Mb RAM. VNC is running under Win2k on a Dell Latitude w/192Mb RAM, 750mhz. So neither machine is too snappy by today's gaming standards.
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