We use the Squeak VNC server http://www.squeaksource.com/RFB.html, which works very well. Adrian On Oct 4, 2008, at 16:47 , Bill Schwab wrote:
Hello all,
As part of some catch-up work from a couple of weeks ago, I'm using my 1.8 GHz/500MB Ubuntu box and a remote desktop client to do some configuration on a win2k3 VM running on a blade server on campus. By many standards, I am using a pig-slow machine jumping through lots of hoops to reach a machine that has only part of a CPU at the other end.
One striking thing is that the remote desktop client on Ubuntu is putting its Windows XP counter part to shame for speed for most things; the XP client drags on everything; this is generally (almost) snappy, and much nicer to use as result. The XP box in my office, IIRC, is a 3.x GHz machine (faster than what I am using now to be sure); it too might have "only" 500MB of RAM - I can check that later if it matters.
The client is clearly optimizing window moves and at least some scrolling operations, uncoverings, etc. Pharo running over there looks comparatively slow, no doubt because ever windowing operation is seen as a change to the on main window. I do not know what to make of it, other than it might be a argument in favor of one native window per system window.
Just thought I'd mention it.
Bill
Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
Email: bschwab@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029
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