Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:35:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" <numard@smartmedia.com.ar> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What do i need to use X remotely? Message-ID: <19980715173522.G15083@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35AC609C.50E8BF39@smartmedia.com.ar>; from Numard (Norberto Meijome) on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:56:12PM %2B1000 References: <35AC5102.D86FAB53@smartmedia.com.ar> <19980715171856.F15083@freebie.lemis.com> <35AC609C.50E8BF39@smartmedia.com.ar>
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On Wednesday, 15 July 1998 at 17:56:12 +1000, Numard (Norberto Meijome) wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> Will it be fast over a 33.600 line (on my side, the other end has lots >>> of bandwith). >> >> No. > > :))) that's what i thought! > >>> Also, what libs do i have to install on the freebsd side? >> >> They should already be installed. You need the X clients. > > you mean, every prog. i plan to use? I don't know what programs you paln to use. What I meant was that if you have a program like, say, Emacs, which interfaces directly with X, you may find that more useful than an xterm, which doesn't give you significant advantages over telnet. >> I've just tried this in reverse, and I discover that the performance >> is acceptable, but significantly slower than telnet. In particular, >> things like iconifying windows, covering them and then uncovering >> them, cause a significant amount of traffic. > > can't i just get 1 app?? i mean, start my X server in linux, telnet to > freebsd (or maybe rsh? ssl-rsh?) issue the command to execute xemacs or > other prog. and display it on my server? Sure, that's exactly what I mean. >> I think I wouldn't bother doing this for xterm, but it might be >> interesting for real X applications. > > yup, i'd stick to telnet and old trusty FTP :) You can't edit with either of those :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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