Well I not talking about 2mb/s I am talking about over a modem 56k or less. With terminal services / citrix it works and works pretty well, with vnc and x forwarding it is barely usable. On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 23:25, Kevin Geiss wrote: > X is a whole different model from windows. instead of remotely displaying > a whole screen, I like to ssh into the remote machine and forward my X > connection over ssh. Then I can run X clients (apps) on the remote machine > and display them locally. If you stay away from pixmap-based GTK+ themes, > it's pretty quick even over my 2mb/s wireless connection on my laptop. > > gvim, for example, is blazing fast displayed remotely. most of the time > I can't tell a performance difference, remote vs. local. > > think about it, why would you want the whole desktop drawn over the > network? you probably only want to run a couple X clients remotely. > > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 12:33:53AM -0700, Entelin wrote: > > Is there anything even remotely as fast as terminal services for linux ? > > > > I know of VNC and its variations but its too slow by far. Don't we have > > anything as fast? > > > > -- > > Entelin > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Entelin