Re: [Xouvert-general] Network transparentcy and modules

[Jerry Westrick]

I donot wish to start a debate about or about eficiency, but...

Form a user's point of view, I prefer VNC even when making linux to
linux over a local network.

The only time I use remote-X, is when I only want a single window,
after I've started ssh session.

But like I said, I'm not knowledgeable about the topics being 
discussed, I'm programmer who happens to use linux/X-Windows...


Jerry Westrick.


On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:03, Tupshin Harper wrote:
> Jerry Westrick wrote:
> 
> >Another insteresting topic for dicusion would be looking into better
> >support for VNC, which is what most people use instead of a remote
> >X-Server.
> >  
> >
> What would be "better" vnc support? To me, vnc support is already 
> outstanding, and I use it frequently. However, it's paradigm is 
> substantially more limited than using X's networking support natively. 
> The ability to remotely run wm-unmanaged apps is wonderful, and vnc will 
> never support that kind of thing. In addition, vnc is inherently bitmap 
> based, and even with the various efficient compression mechanisms that 
> it uses, it is inherently suboptimal compared with a protocol that 
> understands more of the interface and event semantic such as X(though X 
> is far from being optimal itself).
> 
> -Tupshin
> 
>