[Dapper] remote gksu: when it greys out the screen, it's too slow...

[Thilo Six]

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Michael R. Head schrieb am 13.03.2006 00:05:
> On my local machine (and even over a fast local network connection), I
> love how gksu greys out the desktop before grabbing keyboard focus. It's
> visually and mentally great.
> 
> However, sometimes I need to run things like gnome-cups-manager and
> other gnome-system-tools remotely, particularly when helping my parents
> out on their computers at home, and it's just too darn slow for gksu to
> take the screenshot, grey it out, and send it back to my machine. Is
> there a way to disable this feature when I'm using a slow link?
> 
> mike

If i understand correctly the problem is it´s too slow to have a remote
X connection, right?
May FreeNX help you?

http://freenx.berlios.de/

Next Generation Remote Display

NX is an exciting new technology for remote display. It provides near
local speed application responsiveness over high latency, low bandwidth
links. The core libraries for NX are provided by NoMachine under the
GPL. FreeNX is a GPL implementation of the NX Server.

bye Thilo
- --
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine
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