[plug] Modems & X

[Russell Steicke]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:26:44PM +1100, Campbell, David (Ex AS17) wrote:
> What applications that spring to mind that could compress the X bandwith
> across the modem (the remote end is a POSIX but non-Linux OS, the
> application is heavy on the Motif widgets if that is any help).

If you can use ssh, it can do X11 forwarding, and will also compress the
data stream (its stdin, stdout, the X11 connection and any other port
forwarding it's doing).  The ssh man page is a pretty good source of
info (it came from OpenBSD, who are very keen to keep their man pages up
to date and informative.)

While I have used ssh to do X11 forwarding, I haven't tried the
compression option, and can't tell you how much difference it will make.

> David Campbell

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