[FreeNX-kNX] n00b Q: How do you connect to the root "console" session from remote?

Adilson Oliveira adilson at linuxembarcado.com.br
Thu Jun 15 18:23:07 UTC 2006


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Eike Hein escreveu:
> Alastair Johnson wrote:
>>> If you run the NX server on the same machine as the VNC server, and use the NX 
>>> client to make the VNC connection, you should see NX-like performance.
> 
> I had something in the back of my mind about NX being
> able to proxy VNC connections, but I've never tried it.
> 
> I have my doubts that it offers comparable perfor-
> mance to a 'real' NX session, though - the NX server
> acting as VNC client doesn't quite have the same
> optimization leverage considering the VNC protocol's
> relative primitiveness.

You are right, one can't compare the performance of a "pure" NX session
with VNC over NX but there is quite some work in nxviewer to optimize
VNC under NX (I did some myself). It's far from perfect due the way VNC
works but it does a good job.

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Adilson.
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