[indiana-discuss] Compiz over VNC?

[Clay Baenziger]

Similarly, the Sun Shared Visualization system has a VNC implementation so
that you can run Compviz on the X11 client instead of the server on your
local system (depending on which system has the beefier card).

							Thank you,
							Clay

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Albert Lee wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 07:27 -0400, John Meyer wrote:
> > Hi Folks --
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience running compiz over VNC?  A Google
> > search came up pretty
> > disappointing.  Apparently, the VNC server from pkg.sunfreeware.com
> > doesn't include a
> > KBD or OpenGL extension, and I know there's going to be a performance
> > hit.
> >
>
> Instead of the limited Xvnc server in the traditional VNC bundle, you
> mat want to use x11vnc or another VNC server that export a "real" X
> server. This is the option that I have actually tried, and it works
> relatively well.
>
> If you don't have the option of running an X session on hardware, you
> might be able to use the Xfake headless server instead (it's not clear
> if it supports GLX and Composite).
>
> Xephyr nested inside Xvnc sounds plausible too. Xephyr supports GLX and
> Composite for sure, but like Xnest before it, it needs a host X server
> to display on. Since Xephyr only requires limited capabilities in the
> host, Xvnc is sufficient.
>
> -Albert
>
>
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