X11 server that supports OpenGL 1.5 or higher

[Nathan Kidd]

On 2020-06-05 3:29 p.m., Joe Hays wrote:
> Thanks for the insight. I've not heard of a scenario like that. Can you
> suggest a tool for the compressing remote access protocol?

Two open source examples off the top of my head are TurboVNC and xpra
but there are many more I'm sure others can suggest for your search terms.

-Nathan

> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 12:13 PM Nathan Kidd <nathan-ml at spicycrypto.ca
> <mailto:nathan-ml at spicycrypto.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2020-06-04 8:10 p.m., Joe Hays wrote:
>     > I've started looking in to using VirtualGL. I got it working but am
>     > finding almost similar performance as the software rendering when
>     using
>     > vanilla X11 Forwarding. Since this is my first rodeo with
>     VirtualGL I'm
>     > sure that there is some setting that I have not configured properly...
>     > Or, it could simply be throttled by my work's VPN connection.
> 
>     Based on your mention of Xming and Cygwin, sounds like you're runing
>     your X server on local desktop with app remote over the VPN.  In this
>     case the performance bottleneck is almost certainly sending uncompressed
>     rasterized images over the VPN; it won't matter who is doing the OpenGL
>     rendering.  For decent performance in that case you'll need to run the X
>     server on the app host side and use a compressing remote access protocol
>     from your desktop to remote X server.
> 
>     -Nathan
>