On 25-May-06 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.
There are a couple of possibilities you might consider:
-- LBX (Low Bandwidth X) -- dxpc - (Differential X Protocol Compressor)
which are designed to speed up X over remote connections. They are outlined in
http://www.paulandlesley.org/faqs/LBX-HOWTO.html
I have used LBX in the past over a dialup link, but it was years ago.
Though it's not mentioned in the above description, I was under the impression (even for LBX) that there was also an element of not sending redundant information -- only what is needed to implement changes in the display.
Both of the above are, I think, rather old. Whether they're still available for modern X I can't say.
Good luck! Ted.
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