Nxviewer options?

[David Hart]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 08:46:00PM +0000, neil woolford wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:04 +0000, David Hart wrote:

> > Ubuntu/Gnome has Terminal Server Client which works well over fast and
> > slow links and even does sound when connected to WinXP.
> 
> Yes, though I've found the cursor and redraws seem to lag compared to
> Nxviewer, which is why I'm trying that for now.  The one problem I have
> with Nxviewer is that the command line options aren't well documented.
> I can find lists of them, but no proper explanations of what they do...

I've never used any version of VNC over any bandwidth where the cursor
didn't lag.  I now habitually look at the little dot, not the cursor.

Give Terminal Server Client another go.  I suspect from the parameters
that you mentioned in an earlier post that you were running Nxviewer
in 256 colour depth (yuck!).  Have you compared TSC at the same
colour depth?  (You won't have to interpret manuals that don't exist
in order to configure it ;)

But you shouldn't need to set the colour depth with a recent VNC.
It now adjusts colour depth to the bandwidth it finds available _on_
_the_ _fly_ (developed originally, IIRC, on tightVNC and later
incorporated into VNC main).

Run TSC and you can see the colour depth changing as you start and
stop heavy downloads.  (Check out its network usage at the same time,
'ntop' is good for this.)
 
> > KDE has one (forgotten the name) with the nice feature that you can 
> > shrink the screen (so you don't have to scroll) when you're connected to
> > a higher resolution box.
> 
> Not a problem here, as I'm running a nice big 1600x1200 screen on my
> box.  Could be handy for working the other way round though.

It sometimes is for me, mostly for connecting from my laptop
(1400x1050) to my desktop (1600x1200).

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>