[CLUG] remote x sessions around the world

[Cain Hopwood]

Kevin,

TightVNC might be what you're after, It uses jpeg compression of images, and
you can adjust the compression to your requirements.

L&K Cain

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cork-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:cork-bounces at linux.ie] On 
> Behalf Of Kevin O'Riordan
> Sent: 13 August 2003 19:03
> To: cork at linux.ie
> Subject: [CLUG] remote x sessions around the world
> 
> 
> Anyone know of good ways to run remote X sessions from 
> machines over in the 
> US? The raw X protocol is way too slow to be usable. We were using 
> Tarantella in work but the per-user licence is way too expensive. Was 
> thinking of VNC as a possiblity. I know SSH does X11 
> forwarding but the 
> encryption overhead is a pain and it doesn't seem to be much 
> faster than raw 
> X11. Have heard of the forward command,  which is part of the 
> mirrordir 
> package. Is its compression any good?
> 
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