on Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:38:22AM -0300, Cristian Gutierrez (crgutier@dcc.uchile.cl) wrote:
> Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:39:21PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> >>
> >>>>You can always tunnel the VNC connection through SSH.
> >> And make already sloth VNC more like sitting through all 3 hours of
> >> Titanic: Slow and painful with lots of high-pitched shrieking in the
> >> middle. Be sure to sell the album, it'll go to the top of the charts
> >> in Quebec. 8:o)
> >>
> >
> > Never had that problem. Even connecting remotely to my home
> > box (on DSL, so limited to 256 kbps upstream) at 1024x768.
>
> 128 kbps going up here. With color-space reduction (-bgr233), heavy jpeg
> compression (-compresslevel 9), low jpeg quality (-quality 0), and tight
> encoding (-encodings "tight copyrect"), TightVNC isn't that bad; refresh
> rate is slow but it usually drops enough "refreshes" to keep mouse
> cursor more-or-less updated. And since we're tunneling through SSH, add
> its own compression (-C) too.
Add to the mouse options (if possible) local mouse management. For the
most part, all you need remotely are the click actions. Several remote
desktops offer this capability for far higher apparent responsiveness.
Peace.
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