If we are talking about just jpilot, you could always just copy the $HOME/.jpilot directories using scp or rsync.
Have you thought about getting broadband, Latency is a pain but its bandwidth that really counts for jpilot usage as I have used ssh tunnelled X11 applications from the UK at many sites in Europe. If you have a laptop you could use the free wireless broadband at the east oxford community centre.
Have you selected a gtk theme with little colour? Have you considered using just 8 bits per pixel colour depth,
Also have you thought of recompiling gtk as I believe toolkit has some support (like motif) for passing only the API calls across the network rather than the X11 commands.
And finally have you thought about syncing your palm more frequently? I have found palm to be very good at syncing with multiple jpilots.
Regards
Owen Synge
On Thu, 25 May 2006 05:08:49 -0500 chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas about, or is there a web site that will tell me about, the relative speeds of different ways of running X applications across the internet? I'm specifically interested in runnning jpilot (a Palm Dekstop replacement that runs on Linux) remotely through my ADSL connection.
The only way I have run it to date is tunnelling X through an ssh connection. This works OK in the sense that it's full functional but it's not really fast enough for normal use. It's just a way of getting at the data if I really need to.
What I'm after is knowing if there are better and/or more optimised ways of connecting so that this would become a usable utility when accessed remotely.
In terms of bandwidth use jpilot is sort of 'middling', it is much, much more usable than running Firefox via the ssh tunnel for example but not as quick as running an rxvt terminal. (An rxvt terminal actually runs quite quickly but there's little point as it only offers the same function as an ordinary ssh session which is quicker and easier)
So, can anyone offer any ideas please.
-- Chris Green (chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net)
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