Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 14, 2012 11:46 UTC (Tue) by Cato (guest, #7643)
In reply to: Wayland - Beyond X (The H) by khim
Parent article: Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

I have actually tried X11 from Windows PCs to Linux - it was quite painful to get working, and extremely slow even on a 100 Mbps LAN - I know that's an implementation issue as it worked fine in the old days on 10 Mbps LANs but it shows that remote X11 isn't very useful for Windows to Linux remote access.

VNC and NX have both worked well, though setting up an NX server looked too painful to contemplate.

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Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 14, 2012 14:04 UTC (Tue) by tstover (guest, #56283) [Link]

I do that almost every day. It's been working wonderful for years. Putty + xmingw or cygwin on most hardware of the last 5 - 7 years on 100 or 1000mpb ethernet is very very close to a local application. Multiple remote computers, text editors, browsers, gimp sessions, many users, all day M-F. No I'm not making this up. In fact it's even mixed in with the similar 'doz feature from 2008r2.

Sure this sucked back with nt3.5 + exceed + 10mbp or what ever...

and on my home LAN with linux on both sides it's also great. although I use local browsers and media players.

Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 15, 2012 7:49 UTC (Wed) by ronnyadsetts (subscriber, #47268) [Link]

> I have actually tried X11 from Windows PCs to Linux - it was quite painful
> to get working, and extremely slow even on a 100 Mbps LAN - I know that's
> an implementation issue as it worked fine in the old days on 10 Mbps LANs
> but it shows that remote X11 isn't very useful for Windows to Linux
> remote access.

Running X remotely with ADSL connections both ends and speed is more than acceptable. That's ~1.8Mb/s upstream at one end and 800Kb/s upstream at the other end.

It's certainly much better to use than VNC over the same connection, both speed wise and graphical quality wise.

I suggest that something is wrong with your set up if the speed is unacceptable over 100Mb/s.

Losing network transparency for X to me would be losing one of it's biggest strengths.

Ronny