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Re: ssh -x
- From: Holger Krull <holger dot krull at gmx dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:02:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: ssh -x
- References: <000001c74d62$2fe97030$0e00a8c0@sherlock>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Ruth Ivimey-Cook schrieb:
> There is another option: set up an LBX connection. This requires a process
> (called LBX) that runs on the machine running the normal X server; you then
> connect your clients to LBX.
>
> LBX is "Low Bandwidth X" and is a protocol-specific compression algorithm which
> works reasonably well. It may help to use normal compress on the result, but I
> doubt it.
>
> The downside is there is no automatic method of setting it up, unlike for ssh
> -X
Yes, the low bandwith extension does help. The nx proxy from nomachine.com is working on the same principle and more efficient (including image caching).
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