[gentoo-user] Re: access Linux "X" from android tablet

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-11-04, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> It will work if you have an X-server on your Android tablet.
>
> But I doubt you have an X-Server on your Android tablet.
>
> Are you understanding what I am saying? Do you know what an X-server is?
>
> It is not VNC, RDP, nx, newmachine or anything else; it is itself, the
> thing that KDE and Gnome run on.
>
> Android does not ship with an X-server.
>
>> But even if it did, it would be very, very slow.
>
> Not necessarily.

Not for trivial applications like xterm.  But if that's all you need
then an ssh client like connectbot is _way_ simpler.

While xterm will work fine, in my experience anything built on a
modern GUI "desktop" is utterly useless over any connection slower
than 100MB.  Starting up something like Thunderbird over a 2MB remote
connection takes forever (minutes). Every mouse action takes several
seconds to register.  Keystrokes take many seconds to process.  The
authors of modern X frameworks have decided do depend on the
assumption that the X server is local and a few thousand round-trips
between client and server in order to handle a single user input event
can be handled in an instant and therefore isn't something to worry
about.

-- 
Grant