Squeak & VNC (was Re: ssh/linux/X windows -- a slow combo)

Dino gte949e at prism.gatech.edu
Wed Nov 3 21:45:07 UTC 1999


ya, I also use the vnc solution to remotely do my stuff...  works very
well.

Dino


Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> At 3:25 PM -0500 11/3/99, "GXran" Hultgren wrote:
> 
> >--- Lyn A Headley <lyn at healthquiz.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've got squeak 2.6 running on redhat linux 6.0.  I would like to
> >> connect to the linux machine from another Unix box via ssh, run squeak
> >> on the linux box and use X Windows to display it locally.  This works
> >> fine, but I'm finding the graphics far too slow.  Does anyone know any
> >> tips for speeding up X in combination with squeak and ssh?
> >
> >Have you looked at VNC? It works very nice together with Squeak,
> >at least for me. I have a RedHat machine running Squeak and Xvnc and the
> only tricky part was
> >something with visual classes - can not remember right now - but I posted
> info about it a while
> >ago.
> >
> >regards, Gran
> >
> 
> I'd be interested in comparisons between X and VNC on the same
> box/network. There was some talk on the Squeak Swiki about building VNC
> client & server support directly into Squeak (to take advange of what
> Squeak knows about it's own display bits, among other things). So any
> performance comparisons using X-based VNC would be welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan Parsia.





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