On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 00:39, Robert Jonsson wrote: > s?ndagen den 1 augusti 2004 04.51 skrev Joe Hartley: > > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:20:22 -0400 > > > > Chris Pickett <chris.pickett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Malcolm Baldridge wrote: > > > > Unless our terminologies are reversed: I usually refer to the X > > > > "server" side to be the remote, and the "display client" to be the > > > > "local". My apologies if we're talking about it from opposite sides. > > > > > > The X server is what you have on your machine. It handles display > > > requests from client applications (possibly run remotely). > > > > > > At least, that's my limited understanding of how it's meant to work. > > > > Chris has it correct, which often seems bass-ackwards to the way people > > think of client/server stuff. The X server is what's running on the > > machine with the display. The client app runs remotely (usually on a > > server, complicating the terminology!) and displays on the server. > > > > I'm coming in late to the conversation, but I absolutely agree that > > while it's easier and more secure to remotely display X audio apps over > > ssh, the processing power is often unacceptably high. > > At times I've run soundapps over VNC with great results. Infact, running VNC > to the local machine does infact improve lowlatency behaviour. Probably due > to hardware acceleration being basically disabled. > > But, VNC has one big drawback, it can at the moment only export whole > displays, not separate programs. Integration wise it sucks. > > Though I think I read somewhere that VNC (or possible tightvnc) is going to > support separate apps soon...?! > > /Robert Is XDMCP running over ssh? I'm using it on MDK 10 to port the display to my WInblows XP laptop thru X-Win32. Works great. It was having a problem with Keepalive timeouts and the session dying. I think the machine was going into suspend. I changed the settings in the BIOS and it has been fine since. I leave VNC running as a backup in case the other dies! I use the thing at gigs this way...although still working out minor bugs, it is reliable and robust. R~
