Serving X Windows over Dial-Up?

[Leo J Mauler]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:29:40 -0600 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
writes:
> It's basically the same as using VNC.  It's doable, but slow.  

So VNC is M$-only?

> You don't get as many screen refreshes remotely as 
> you get when you are in front of the PC monitor.   It 
> helps to turn off stuff like sliding menus, shading of 
> mouse pointers, background images, transparent 
> windows.   When you use VNC, all that is turned 
> off by default.  There is a checkbox to turn off the 
> background image.  I don't know if X does this, but 
> VNC only transmits the pixels that have changed 
> since last refresh.  I'm much more familiar w/ VNC 
> and MS terminal server than w/ remote X.  I have 
> read that you can start a ssh session with a box, then 
> remotely run X over that.

Well, the situation is a friend in the hospital, my laptop is a Pentium90
which can still do X on its own, but I was wondering about a remote X
setup to use the slightly faster home computer over a dial-up/RAS
connection.  Catching up with E-mail and a few web-based financial things
she'd like to do on her own.  There's phone services for some of it but
she's one of those do-it-yourself people.

> >>> Leo J Mauler <w> 02/20/04 02:42AM >>>
> I don't have any way of testing this question on my own (only one 
> working
> modem left), so I'll ask it here.
> 
> Has anyone else tried serving up Linux and X (ala LTSP) over a 
> dial-up
> connection?  Can you do anything X-based with it?  I'm thinking in 
> terms
> of, say, editing a document in Abiword or a spreadsheet in Gnumeric, 
> or
> reading one's E-mail using an X-based application like Evolution.  
> I.e.,
> if that sort of thing is so slow that it is annoying, thats not 
> "doing
> anything X-based with it".
> 
> Lets assume a low-overhead desktop manager, like IceWM.

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