[plug] Modems & X

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, 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).

You could try to install/compile vncserver at the remote end and access it
via a vncclient locally - vnc traffic tends to be a lot smaller than the
equivalent X traffic would be.

Failing that, you could try using lbx (low bandwidth X) which was designed
for that purpose - compile & run the lbxproxy program at the remote end,
and have that connect to your local X server (most recent Linux X servers
support lbx)

 - Matt