[TriLUG] VNC/SSH Tunneling speed

[matt at noway2.thruhere.net]

+1 for NX.  At work we are forced to use W, so we have a Linux box tucked away and use FreeNX to work from that remotely instead.  Works great!

One thing to note.  It uses secure tunneling by automatically so you won't need to run SSH.  You will want to replace the default keys with ones of your own though. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Cottingham <spiffytech at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:26:57 
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion<trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VNC/SSH Tunneling speed

If you're having a bandwidth/latency problem with VNC take a look at NX[1].
Rather than just passing screenshots over the network it passes actual X11
events back and forth, which have a much lower overhead than bitmaps. I've
found it quite usable over the Internet, and it has all the features you
could need: connections run over SSH, display resizing, connecting to an
existing X session, and settings for faster/slower networks.

-Brian

[1] http://www.nomachine.com/download.php


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>  I have a ssh tunnel to my server @home. I'm on a cable modem. I'm
> wondering if there is a way to speed up the response time?  I've dropped my
> color depth to 16. I'd like to be able to keep a decent colordepth.
>
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