[FreeNX-kNX] fyi why I am using nxagent and not nxproxy

[Mario Becroft]

"Roberto A. Foglietta" <roberto.foglietta at gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/6/22, Misha Koshelev <mk144210 at bcm.edu>:
>> nxproxy by itself does not seem to get better compressing than tight VNC.
>>
>
> http://www.nomachine.com/documents/building-components.php
>
> As we have seen, good compression would be useless without a
> comparable effort dedicated to reducing the X round-trips. Single
> applications run through an nxproxy tunnel cannot currently leverage
> round-trip suppression offered by nxagent. A rootless nxagent (that is
> a nxagent that is able to mix its own windows with windows opened by
> local clients on the real X server) will be made available in the
> future.

Actually this mode is already available. It does seem to have some
peculiarities though compared with running applications in the normal
way.

-- 
Mario Becroft <mb at gem.win.co.nz>