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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Troeder <daniel@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: |
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>> Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was |
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>> surprised too. My laptop and the "remote" system are 15 feet away |
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>> from each other on the same wireless network, with the router in |
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>> between. |
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> Most X programs store their bitmaps in the X server - not the program. |
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> You can see this if you look at the memory usage. So lots of data is |
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> transfered if using gimp :) |
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> BTW: If you can use cable instead of wireless, you may have a _much_ |
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> better experience, because of the latency that wireless adds. |
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> BTW2: If your bandwidth is really small, you should use VNC instead of |
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> ssh-X - though that's not to nice with image editing :) |
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NX is the king... it's about a million times faster than VNC or ssh X |
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forwarding (or windows RDP). |
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net-misc/nxserver-freeedition is at the top of my "must have" list. |
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viewing full-screen images or working with gimp probably won't be a |
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treat no matter what, but it'd probably be many orders of magnitude |
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faster than ssh forwarding. |
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