[Cialug] X to X

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 23:55, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>Then, when you SSH from one system to another SSH will take care of
>setting up xauth and the DISPLAY environment variable to securely
>forward the X protocol across the SSH connection.  This will work
> pretty well over a fast LAN connection, but will be pretty slow
> across the Internet.

Raw X over SSH is indeed sluggish over a slow connection. But i've run 
VNC over SSH before and despite seeming to have more stuff to send (an 
entire desktop as opposed to just 1 application), it is much more 
responsive. Unfortunately, i do VNC over SSH so rarely that i can never 
remember the commands to start a session and so i usually just use X 
over SSH and tolerate the slowness.

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