VNC performance

[Chris Bozic]

There's a package called x11vnc in the debian universe that allows you
to share your current desktop as localhost:0 (similar to windows based
vnc servers).  I'm using it on my ubuntu installation on a machine
with similar hardware to yours and its performance is pretty good. 
Unlike tight vnc, you don't start two gnome sessions at the same time.
 You just share the current one you're running.

Chris


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:33:52 -0400, Chris <ubuntu at functionalfuture.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 18:10 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> > I need to run a VNC session with Ubuntu as the host and winXP as the
> > client. When I set up the 'Remote Desktop' (gnome-vino), I get a working
> > connection, but it's _very_ slow to update and the Ubuntu machine (an
> > oldish laptop, at 850 Mhz) is struggling. top reveals that is in fact X
> > that's working hard. I'm running tightvnc 1.3-dev5 on the client machine.
> 
> I don't know exactly what you need to accomplish, but on fast
> connections I much prefer an X session instead of VNC.  I usually run
> Cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin) or another X server for
> Windows and then use that to remote my Linux or Sun desktop.  On fast
> connections it is much more usable and responsive than VNC.  I normally
> just use the ssh/X11 forwarding with compression turned on.  Try running
> gnome-session in rootless mode for a bizarre experience on your Windows
> machine.
> 
> I also prefer Terminal Services instead of VNC when going the other way
> with Linux as the client (unless Terminal Services is unavailable like
> on a Win2k machine).
> 
> Now, if you're connecting over a 56k modem or something then yeah, you
> probably will like VNC better than an X session.
> 
> --
> // Chris
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