Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] vnc article

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> One of the things that bug me about VNC is inconsistent screen refresh.
> It can be especially apparent when using the mouse wheel to scroll
> documents up and down. Only the top and bottom 20% of the window
> refresh, with the rest of the window staying the same until I click the
> mouse somewhere in it. Did anyone else experience it (recent TightVNC
> and vnc-3.3.3r2-39)?

Odd, I use the scroll wheel in VNC all the time without trouble. Were you
using it over a LAN or over dialup?

> Another thing is the speed-quality tradeoff. It's a bit too slow at the
> acceptable (to me) quality level but I guess it's not a problem when the
> client system is *really* slow already.

I notice slight speed bumps but not enough to be a problem for office apps
or web browsing. As I said it even plays games like Gnibbles without a
noticable speed problem for me. There is even less of a speed problem when
both the client and the server are fast machines.

I've noticed the Windows XP VNC client is slower than the Linux one and
seems to have trouble dealing with combo keystrokes etc. I've had no such
problems under Linux though.

> I think that rdesktop is much faster but there's no Linux server for it
> that I could find. http://www.rdesktop.org/

I've not tried it but will look at it. What would be the point of a remote
desktop without a Linux server?

> Oh, wait, here's one:
>
> "rdp-srvr is an experimental open source RDP protocol server which requires
> vncserver to run. Basically, it simply translates RDP to VNC protocol."
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rhcontrib/7.2/i386/rdesktop-server-1.0.0pl19.7.3-4.i386.html
>
> Since rdp-srvr uses vnc, I don't know if it would be any better than VNC.
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