I'm connecting to a remote machine and want to use X server.
However the connection is a bit slow and I'm wondering if
there are any compression settings that i could enable
on the machines to improve performance. I know that
for TS or vnc there are settings to change number of colors
displayed, resolution, bitmap caching etc. In my case
the remote machine is Centos(xclient) and the local machine(xming
xserver) is windows XP.

thanks for any suggestions.

asdf wrote:
> I'm connecting to a remote machine and want to use X server.
> However the connection is a bit slow and I'm wondering if
> there are any compression settings that i could enable
> on the machines to improve performance. I know that
> for TS or vnc there are settings to change number of colors
> displayed, resolution, bitmap caching etc. In my case
> the remote machine is Centos(xclient) and the local machine(xming
> xserver) is windows XP.
>
> thanks for any suggestions.
>

If you have remote Linux server and you connect with windows (or Linux)
client, use FreeNX. Absolutely the best way.

My own observations about installing in openSUSE:

http://waxborg.servepics.com/english...freenx.en.html

I assume that you are connecting _from_ windows client _to_ Linux server.

Their website:
http://www.nomachine.com/

Vahis
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_real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp,
and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
Linus Torvalds 1996.

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:00:28 +0000, asdf wrote:

> I'm connecting to a remote machine and want to use X server.
> However the connection is a bit slow and I'm wondering if
> there are any compression settings that i could enable
> on the machines to improve performance. I know that
> for TS or vnc there are settings to change number of colors
> displayed, resolution, bitmap caching etc. In my case
> the remote machine is Centos(xclient) and the local machine(xming
> xserver) is windows XP.

If you have Xming configured to start a program (run remote, using
PuTTY/SSH), there is a 'With compression' checkbox.



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On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:11:36 +0300, Vahis <waxborg******.com.invalid> wrote:

>asdf wrote:
>> I'm connecting to a remote machine and want to use X server.
>> However the connection is a bit slow and I'm wondering if
>> there are any compression settings that i could enable
>> on the machines to improve performance. I know that
>> for TS or vnc there are settings to change number of colors
>> displayed, resolution, bitmap caching etc. In my case
>> the remote machine is Centos(xclient) and the local machine(xming
>> xserver) is windows XP.
>>
>> thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>
>If you have remote Linux server and you connect with windows (or Linux)
>client, use FreeNX. Absolutely the best way.

I use TightVNC, never got FreeNX to work while tightvnc was easy.

I alse use it right now to use my older linux desktop remotely as I use Agent
(via wine) for news and Agent and some other win-apps dont work currently on
Ion window manager but vnc client does (I tried running thrugh ssh
X-forwarding first).


>Vahis

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Sir Robin wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:11:36 +0300, Vahis <waxborg******.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> asdf wrote:
>>> I'm connecting to a remote machine and want to use X server.
>>> However the connection is a bit slow and I'm wondering if
>>> there are any compression settings that i could enable
>>> on the machines to improve performance. I know that
>>> for TS or vnc there are settings to change number of colors
>>> displayed, resolution, bitmap caching etc. In my case
>>> the remote machine is Centos(xclient) and the local machine(xming
>>> xserver) is windows XP.
>>>
>>> thanks for any suggestions.
>>>
>> If you have remote Linux server and you connect with windows (or Linux)
>> client, use FreeNX. Absolutely the best way.
>
> I use TightVNC, never got FreeNX to work while tightvnc was easy.

My notes there if followed literally will make it work.
I had first some trouble, that's why I made the notes to remember
everything. It was the client at that time. I had to use their own
client instead of the one that came with SUSE/KDE.

http://waxborg.servepics.com/english...freenx.en.html
>
> I alse use it right now to use my older linux desktop remotely as I use Agent
> (via wine) for news and Agent and some other win-apps dont work currently on
> Ion window manager but vnc client does (I tried running thrugh ssh
> X-forwarding first).

The compression in FreeNX is superb to anything else. So full screen
grapchical sessions is where it it's at its best. It's usable even over
GPRS.

Also the ability to leave a session running and coming back to that from
another computer or connection works like charm.

When I run cli I run screen. This is my daily connection from E90
Communicator.

When I run GUI I run FreeNX. That's when I'm on a real computer with
proper display.

Vahis
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"Only wimps use tape backup:
_real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp,
and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
Linus Torvalds 1996.