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Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net> posted |
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Pine.LNX.4.64.0705261746390.9042@××××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on |
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Sat, 26 May 2007 17:47:36 -0400: |
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>>> Is it possible to run a complete Gnome desktop from a remote |
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>>> location through ssh? I'm not talking about using vnc to watch a |
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>>> remote desktop but actually run one remotely and only have it |
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>>> displayed here. |
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>> SSH also includes functionality to allow X11 forwarding through the |
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>> encrypted SSH connection. |
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> You'll need a fast (100mbps+) lan for it, even with the ssh compression |
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> enabled. |
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I've not done it and don't know the details of the protocol, so can't |
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really argue from the practical end, but if it requires that, how'd they |
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ever do it back in the day, before XFree86, let alone xorg? Back then, |
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10Mbps Ethernet would have been fast, 2 Mbps would have been standard, |
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let alone dialup. Sure, screen sizes were smaller back then, but that |
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much? |
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BTW, from what I've read, it's generally 2D and possibly unaccelerated 3D |
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only. Accelerated 3D generally makes use of DRI or other direct |
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rendering client to hardware, not over the socket, so not over the net. |
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As I said, tho, I've no first hand experience, so I'm just going by what |
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I've read. It's also possible that AIGLX (Accelerated Indirect GLX), a |
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relatively new development, might have changed that. If so and that's |
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what you were talking about, yeah, I can imagine /that/ might take some |
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bandwidth. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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