Re: tlug: MI/X PC X server (VNC alternative)

[Sean Bennett <sean@example.com>]

Thanks Jim

I just read your other post in CodeJ - thanks;  VNC-virtual network computing
(or Vacation North Carolina if you try a yahoo search...) looks pretty
interesting.  Seems to be quite a bit of talk about it on the German newsgroups,
but as I don't read German... ;-)
I assume that because of the display update speed, VNC over a modem/external
connection wouldn't be so great as compared to a network connection, but as I
plan (read: *hope*) to leave my work at work, this shouldn't be a problem.

Sean
sean@example.com


Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 02:50:01PM +0900, nemossan@example.com wrote:
> > Because both Win95j-s are equipted 2-button-mice, thus it was not so
> > comfprtable to use in X.  Futher display speed were rather slow
>
> I was also unhappy with some display elements proving to be invisible
> when I tried to use MI/X.
>
> A possible alternative to using X is to use the Olivetti/Oracle VNC remote
> computing software.  It will let you view an X display on a Windows machine
> (or a Windows display on an X machine, or either on a Pilot).  I've
> mentioned this on the list before, and feel compelled to mention it again
> because the hack value is just so high.
>
> At the pre-TLUG-meeting-setup on Saturday, Joe Marchak and I were lamenting
> that about the only time we had to use Windows nowadays was to read ccMail.
> With VNC, I can use an idle Win95 machine across the room and display my
> ccMail in a window on one of my Linux machines.  VNC runs across a single
> TCP connection, so it is easy to run through SSH.
>
> http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/
>
> The display speed is not great (VNC uses a simple protocol and transfers
> "tiles" that need updating to your viewer)... but it is (barely) acceptable
> even with 486s on both ends.
>
> --
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