X.Org and network

[walter harms]

Hi Maxime,
i think there is actually MUCH interest in X11 over network. The fact that there are several
solutions proves that.
I am not a core developer but use X11 very ofter via network and the BIG problems are not
inside X11 itself but inside the toolskits (use xrestop and become speachless:
E.g. 1164 windows for Firefox now on this box now)

The next problem is the licenses of e.g. NX or VNC they use GPL while xorg is MIT (i may be wrong).

NTL it would be interesting to document more about profiling X11, so people can easly complain
WHO is eating there performance.

re,
 wh


Maxime ACCADIA schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there is any project aiming to improve network
> features in X.Org.
> 
> Despite X11 was designed to work over a network, using X11 over a low
> bandwidth network with common desktop environments is a pain.
> 
> Thin client architecture is of growing interest for schools, enterprises etc.
> Current thin client solutions use one of these technology :
>  * VNC (eg. ThinLinc)
>  * ssh -X (eg. LTSP)
>  * NX
> 
> NX gives reasonably good performances (I didn't tried TigerVNC).
> However, it seems that open source community isn't very interested by
> NX (there might be some good reason to that). Even major distributions
> doesn't provide official packages for NX implementations (freeNX,
> neatx).
> 
> I think a good open source solution for remote display is missing, and
> improving X.Org network capabilities is the best way to fix this. This
> may imply a fairly great amount of work but also a lot of fun !
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