ssh -x

[Ruth Ivimey-Cook]

> The encryption doesn't matter. It is the latency of your 
> connection that matters (ping time), because the X proctocol 
> isn't very efficient. 

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

Regards,

Ruth


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