[CentOS] How to export X displays

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Paul wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:09 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Feizhou wrote:
> >
> > > John R Pierce wrote:
> > > > umair shakil wrote:
> > > > > Why dont u enable RDP on centOS (running GUI), and then using ubunto with
> > > > > this path
> > > >
> > > > RDP is a Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol.     what good would that
> > > > be for linux to linux ??!?
> > >
> > > Well if Linux did have a RDP server then it might be good...RDP is fast (well,
> > > I could play Pinball 3D with it :-P)
> >
> > There is xrdp and I have packaged it for RPMforge, but I am not sure if it
> > is completely usable. (ie. I haven't figured out how to use it and
> > therefor I didn't make the proper sysv script etc...)
> >
>
> The main reason that RDP is more responsive than VNC on windows is that
> RDP does caching and works on the GDI API level similar NX does for X. I
> have watched video playing on a Windows system using UltraVNC with
> reasonable framerate on a LAN.

x11vnc together with enhanced tightvnc does caching as well and is touted
to close the gap with RDP. Lots of information from:

	http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#faq-client-caching
	http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=544195&group_id=32584
	http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html

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