On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:26:00PM +0200, Rick van Hattem wrote: > On Saturday 01 April 2006 23:47, Jim wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg $ epm -qf `which xmkmf ` > > > imake-1.0.1-r1 > > > > > > Please file a bug against tightvnc, as it's missing > > > a dependency. > > > > Will do. > > > > > BTW: Why use tightvnc at all? Realvnc 4 is as fast in > > > my experience and there's still somebody workign on it - > > > seeing that the last update to tightvnc is dated > > > July 2005, I doubt that anybody maintains it anymore. > > > > I am testing out the different vnc versions along with freeNX to see > > what will give me the fastest remote desktop. > > > > > Alexander Skwar > > > > Jim > When you're done testing please report/publish the results, I'm also very > interested in a fast remote desktop system. > > Tightvnc can hog the cpu with the compression sometimes so that's not always > a > good solution either.
I've tried tightVNC and freeNX, both over a relatively slow DSL link and on an old pentium2 450, and whilst both were usable there's no competition: freeNX wins hands down. I also like the fact that freeNX also lets you run single remote applications, instead of always having to start up a complete remote desktop - much closer to normal X-forwarding. The only downside to freeNX was it was more complicated to get working. (But that may have been due to the complicated things I was trying to do: everything had to be tunnelled through a firewall using ssh port-forwarding, and I needed to get my X server to talk to a remote font server, also via ssh tunnelling, so that fonts on the application I was running over freeNX would work.) HTH, Toby -- PhD Student Quantum Information Theory group Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.dr-qubit.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
