[Dapper] remote gksu: when it greys out the screen, it's too slow...

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 22:41 +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
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> Michael R. Head schrieb am 13.03.2006 00:05:
> > On my local machine (and even over a fast local network connection), I
> > love how gksu greys out the desktop before grabbing keyboard focus. It's
> > visually and mentally great.
> > 
> > However, sometimes I need to run things like gnome-cups-manager and
> > other gnome-system-tools remotely, particularly when helping my parents
> > out on their computers at home, and it's just too darn slow for gksu to
> > take the screenshot, grey it out, and send it back to my machine. Is
> > there a way to disable this feature when I'm using a slow link?
> > 
> > mike
> 
> If i understand correctly the problem is it´s too slow to have a remote
> X connection, right?

In general, no. The problem is that there's one action that's very slow
(x client takes screen shot, manipulates it, and paints it back to the x
server). Most x clients run just fine over the link. 

> May FreeNX help you?
> 
> http://freenx.berlios.de/
> 
> Next Generation Remote Display
> 
> NX is an exciting new technology for remote display. It provides near
> local speed application responsiveness over high latency, low bandwidth
> links. The core libraries for NX are provided by NoMachine under the
> GPL. FreeNX is a GPL implementation of the NX Server.

Cool. I've seen FreeNX mentioned many a time. I've never bothered to try
it out, since ssh/X11 tunnels work great and securely and integrate
perfectly into my workflow. I'd really just like to set some environment
variable that tells gksu not to do this one slow operation when I'm
running over a slow link.

> bye Thilo
> - --
> i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
> - - some friend of mine
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