[kde-linux] Desktop Sharing uses lots of CPU

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 13:54, Andrew Walbran wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 6:33 am, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > [KDE 3.5.4 on Fedora Core 5]
> >
> > I am getting 85% CPU on the server when using Desktop Sharing on a
> > Sempron 3100+ machine with an nVidia GeForce 6000 with nVidia's latest
> > driver. I'm using VNCviewer on the client side, and had to set Hextile
> > encoding to avoid a "Rect too big" failure. Is this an nVidia thing,
> > or is there a better way to set up?
>
> Does the server really need to display the desktop as well? If not, you
> would be better to set up Xvnc to be run by inetd (or xinetd if you
> prefer). This can be done by adding the following line to /etc/services:
>
> vnc             5900/tcp                        #VNC server
>
> and something like the following line to /etc/inetd.conf:
>
> vnc             stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/bin/Xtightvnc
> Xtightvnc -inetd -query localhost -once -depth 16 -geometry 1024x768
>
> (That should be be all on one line.)
> You will also need to make sure that KDM is configured to allow XDMCP
> queries from localhost. This way, whenever you connect with a VNC
> viewer, inetd will launch a new VNC server displaying a login screen.
> Multiple users can connect, and it should be faster as the server
> display is not being used.

By "server" I meant the machine sharing itself - not a server in 
the "important" sense - it's actually my MythTV box with the keyboard and 
mouse put aside (ideally). So, all I really want is to control it from my 
main machine.