[K12OSN] VNCViewer and speed of refresh

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 13:39, Doug Simpson wrote:
> I read most of a post given and it is all greek to me. . 
> 
> It was about using X instead of vnc.
> 
> Given that there is an X server running at both places, what would be an 
> example commandline for this scenario?
> 
> Computer at home, where the program is to *run*.
> 
> computer at work where the program running on the home computer would be 
> displayed.

If you can log in via ssh:
>From a terminal window at work,
ssh -C home_machine
 log in
You can run text based programs in your terminal window or if
you start an X program (by typing it's name, perhaps with a &
to keep the terminal prompt active), it will open a window on
your work desktop.  In spite of what I said earlier, this will
be much faster if the display is mostly text.

Do you really have a T1 at home or is this a cable/dsl connection?
Many 'high-speed' home connections have fairly low caps on
outbound traffic.

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  Les Mikesell
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