Re: [hosers-talk] how to bring back that 2400 baud feelin'

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thus spake Tom Plagge:
> > > Be sure you have X compression turned on. That should save you a lot of 
> > > bytes traveling back and forth.
> > 
> > How do you do this?
> 
> Oops, what I was thinking of is not X protocol compression, but rather ssh 
> stream compression. I think it's the -C option for ssh.


Yeah, I tried this the second time and things seemed a little better. 
Still pretty slow, though. Given the level of my paranoia at my office, 
though, I'm not sure I want any data coming into my NIC that isn't over 
ssh.


> As for X protocol compression, you can check whether your X server has it 
> with xdpyinfo, and grep it's output for "LBX". And there's some stuff you 
> can do to get it working:
> 
> http://studenthelp.itee.uq.edu.au/remote/lbx.html
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LBX.html


Cool, thanks. I will look into this.


Jon
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