VNC is not slow for me (was Re: [nzlug] Best approach for remote-admin of a Debian box)

Martin Baehr mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Oct 22 22:10:33 NZDT 2007


On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:06:45PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Apart from switching from client (server?) to server, why not just use X over the network?

because plain X11 does mot allow a window to be moved from one xserver
to another. there are applications to solve that, but none of them are
well developed and stable except possibly FreeNX, but that one i have
not managed to get to run yet.

greetings, martin.
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