Could anybody apply a fix for me?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 22:57, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >> (*) In case you are not familiar with NX: it allows very efficient
> >>     and fast remote desktop access, even over an ISDN or modem link,
> >>     similar to VNC, but much faster and much more secure. You can
> >>     even suspend sessions and re-connect at a later stage, or from
> >>     a different client (as long as it uses the same color depth of
> >>     its display). NX is great to even devote an occasional 30 minutes
> >>     a week to continued KDE development. No need to waste time to
> >>     reboot your 'puter, no need to keep KDE-HEAD current -- I'll do
> >>     it for you....   ;-)
> >
> >Really ?
> >I mean, having to stay current with cvs HEAD is for me the biggest thing
> > (ok after the overdose of stress at work) which currently keeps me from
> > working on "core" kde.
> >
> >Does it work through a firewall, proxies and stuff ?
> 
> If you can ssh, you can use it. And, yes, it's much faster (uses less 
> bandwidth and has less latency) than VNC or pure X.
> 
> I open quite often Kontact or KMail and Kopete from office :-)

Complete desktops currently are still faster than single-application
windows via NX. 

Complete desktops benefit from NX-compression and -caching of X traffic 
as well as from 99% roundtrip suppression.

Single application windows benefit from  NX-compression and -caching of 
X traffic, but still suffer from 100% roundtrip slowdown. 

Single application windows via NX are still faster, though, than single 
application windows via plain vanilla X, because NX compression is better 
than ZLIB ("ssh -C") compression and because the NX caching of traffic
has some very good effect too.

But the real speed gain on slow/lo-bandwidth *as well as fast/hi-bandwidth
links only comes if you combine it all with roundtrip suppression.

Roundtrip suppression will come once the nxagent component of NX has
"rootless window" mode enabled, but it is not yet stable.

Cheers,
Kurt