Re: [tlug] Xming - COOL!

["Greg Thomson " <gregt@example.com>]

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:38:28 +0900, Botond Botyanszki  
<tlug@example.com> wrote:

> But there are other alternatives for rendering x windows stuff on m$
> windows, VNC is a popular choice.

My experience with VNC was anything but pleasent.
Here's my set-up. The server end is a very old AMD K-6 350Mhz with 128MB  
RAM I keep around for trying things out. Currently it runs KDE on MEPIS 6.  
Yes, I know a machine this old has no right running KDE but it does and  
just fast enough to be tolerable. I used KDE's built in Desktop Sharing  
server "krfb" as the VNC server. The client end was my wife's WinXP recent  
model Dell notebook running the TightVNC client. The result: the server  
ground to a near halt. There was an enourmous time lag between clicks and  
any change in the window of the VNC client. Un-useable. No doubt the  
"krfb" server was partly to blame.
After this I discovered Xming. Set up the MEPIS box ssh server to allow  
X11 forwarding, installed Xming & PuTTY on the WinXP end and hey presto, I  
can now access my linux apps from Xming. What's more they load just as  
fast as they do when I'm sitting at the MEPIS box. A day and night  
difference when compared to VNC.

X forwarding may be old technology but it's seems to require far fewer  
resources than VNC does.

Greg.

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