RE: replacing X Window System !

[David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>]

On Sat, 20 May 2006, "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" wrote:

> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 02:57:55 +0200
> From: "\"Döhr, Markus ICC-H\"" <Markus.Doehr@siegenia-aubi.com>
> To: 'Peter Gordon' <codergeek42@gmail.com>
> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: replacing X Window System !
>
> > > Although one has to admit that working with remote X
> > terminals over a
> > > SSH/WAN/VPN-connection is far from usefull, [...]
> > You can tunnel just about anything X11 over SSH/VPN/etc.; even things
> > like a whole desktop GUI; not just plain X terminals.
>
> Did you actually do that? Starting Firefox over a 6 Mbit VPN takes about 3
> minutes on a FAST machine. That´s not acceptable - our users want (almost)
> immediate response to an application, to clicking and waiting 10 seconds
> until the app is doing something.

this is due to the latency, not the speed (X by default requires many 
round-trips to startup). There is an extention that greatly reduces the 
number of round-trips nessasary, I'm willing to bet this will make a huge 
difference for your startup. Unfortunantly I don't remember what this is.

however the huge delays on startup don't translate into a general slowdown 
once the application is started.

yes, this is an add-on, but the way that X evolves is for new 
functionality to be initially available as an add-on, and then move into 
the core distribution.

David Lang

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