VNC performance

[Chris]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 18:10 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> I need to run a VNC session with Ubuntu as the host and winXP as the 
> client. When I set up the 'Remote Desktop' (gnome-vino), I get a working 
> connection, but it's _very_ slow to update and the Ubuntu machine (an 
> oldish laptop, at 850 Mhz) is struggling. top reveals that is in fact X 
> that's working hard. I'm running tightvnc 1.3-dev5 on the client machine.

I don't know exactly what you need to accomplish, but on fast
connections I much prefer an X session instead of VNC.  I usually run
Cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin) or another X server for
Windows and then use that to remote my Linux or Sun desktop.  On fast
connections it is much more usable and responsive than VNC.  I normally
just use the ssh/X11 forwarding with compression turned on.  Try running
gnome-session in rootless mode for a bizarre experience on your Windows
machine.

I also prefer Terminal Services instead of VNC when going the other way
with Linux as the client (unless Terminal Services is unavailable like
on a Win2k machine).

Now, if you're connecting over a 56k modem or something then yeah, you
probably will like VNC better than an X session.

-- 
// Chris