Dumb question about headless & Nebraska

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Mon Apr 2 15:35:23 UTC 2001


Strangely enough, I've done this before...several years back I had a swiki
running on Xvnc.  You're right, it is slow. :)  Still it would be pretty
cool just to use Squeak alone, if possible.

> 
> If not, and you have the bandwidth to support it, give VNC a try.  VNC used
> to be called a frame-buffer protocol, and for things that don't update their
> contents frequently it is usable even over relatively slow connections.  But I
> believe
> that Morphic may have enough updates going on in the background that this
> approach
> would be unusable over a slow connection.  It's easy enough to find out, anyway.
> 
> For the more ambitious, try implementing the VNC server protocol in Squeak.
> 
> - les
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