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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:57:22 +0100
From:      Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X Remotely on a Win2k Box
Message-ID:  <200211131757.25853.lauri@kde.org>
In-Reply-To: <DC7BBA052153A84B80089812D88618C727B2D7@mail.slat.de>
References:  <DC7BBA052153A84B80089812D88618C727B2D7@mail.slat.de>

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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10.15, van den Berg, Courteney wrote:

> P.S. KDE runs great remote on a LAN, but it uses way too much bandwidth
> for a low bandwidth connection. If you're running over the net or dialup
> use TightVNC or Xvnc as others have suggested.

It will also work a lot faster if you run remote sessions at 8bpp.  You'd be 
surprised how many people forget to drop the color depth down, and it makes a 
big difference.

That applies to *vnc also (and not just to KDE, but remote X over 
less-than-lan connections in general.)

Regards,
- -- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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