[FreeNX-kNX] Rootless vs Proxy mode -- Is there a speed difference?

[Fabian Franz]

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Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2005 02:08 schrieb Jonathan Chen:
> Hi all,

to answer the question from your "subject":

Yes, there is a speed difference. In Proxy mode no roundtrips can be 
eliminated, which is very important if you are on a high latency connection.

>
> I am wondering if there is a difference if you were running gui app like
> Eclipse in rootless mode or not?  It's good to run in rootless mode because
> less memory and other resources are consumed vs KDE + Eclipse w/Proxy??

Please distingiush between running an application in a "floating window" and 
in a "virtual desktop".

If you run an application in a "virtual desktop", nxagent is started and you 
have roundtrip elimination.

If you run an application in "floating window" mode and you have 
ENABLE_ROOTLESS="0" then nxproxy will be started instead of nxagent and you 
neither can suspend sessions nor have roundtrip elimination.

If you set ENABLE_ROOTLESS="1", nxagent will be started and you might be able 
to suspend the session, but that is still experimental.

Also as written the whole rootless mode is still experimental, but will be 
default in NX 1.5.0.

cu

Fabian
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