[NTLUG:Discuss] X over ssh -vs- vnc

[MadHat]

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:45, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> Just curious... any have any real world expereince with VNC -vs X over
> SSH? 
> 
> I tried X over an IP Tunnel and it was really, really slow. 
> VNC over the same tunnel was fairly snappy. I was pretty 
> disappointed with the performance of X Windows over that 
> link. 
> 
> Do you guys find X over ssh comparable to VNC? 

You might try adding a -c to the ssh
ssh -cX host
to enable compression, but it still probably won't be as snappy as VNC. 
They are different things completely, doing different things.  I can run
X client on a machine that doesn't run X.  VNC is running an X session
and showing you the desktop, change by change.  I personally wouldn't
try and run X over a slow connection.

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