[ILUG] X over broadband

[Paul Jakma]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Brendan Halpin wrote:

> Is this a fact of life,

It's a fact of life mostly with X. X startup can be very chatty.

> an upstream problem, or something I can fine-tune ssh or emacs to 
> get around?

$ cat ~/bin/runlbxproxy
#!/bin/bash
lbxproxy $1 -display $2 -motion 32 -reconnect -reset \
             -tagcachesize 10496000 -zlevel 9

$ runlbxproxy :100 $DISPLAY

Run that on the remote computer. Then set DISPLAY on the remote 
computer to :100. Given you're using ssh, the zlevel is redundant, 
just make sure your ssh has compression enabled and replace '-zlevel 
9' with '-nocomp'.

It doesn't make much of a difference, but it can make a small 
difference to interactivity once the app is running, particularly 
with respect to those wee drop down menus found in many applications.

regards,
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