Chicken of the VNC... Very slow...

[SpreadTooThin]

I can't turn down the number of colors and get a faster remote access
and it seems to want to redraw the entire screen for every click.
Is there something else I can use? Or can I fix chicken of the VNC?

[Jolly Roger]

On 2007-07-25 11:40:35 -0500, SpreadTooThin <bjobr...@gmail.com> said:

> I can't turn down the number of colors and get a faster remote access

Why not? I can.
More details please?

> and it seems to want to redraw the entire screen for every click.

The COTVNC Profile Manager window allows you to create profiles where
you can set the type of encoding used (and also the color depth used).
What encoding and color settings are you using?

> Is there something else I can use? Or can I fix chicken of the VNC?

You can probably fix this.

--
JR

[Bob Harris]

In article
<1185381635....@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
SpreadTooThin <bjobr...@gmail.com> wrote:

VNC takes 2 to tango.

What are you using for the remote VNC server?

And is it another Mac, or is it Windows, Linux, other?

If another Mac, the Vine Server (aka OSXvnc) uses the "TightVNC"
compression protocols and does a very good job of sending minimum
data back. It also supports allowing the client to specify the
number of colors.
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16699>

If you are using the MacOSX built-in VNC server (System
Preferences -> Sharing -> Apple Remote Desktop), I do not think it
uses the TightVNC compression protocols. I noticed when I played
with it that it seemed to redraw the screen top to bottom more
noticeably. But I only used it as a proof of concept and my
memory of the experiment was a while ago.

If your server is on Linux, I think the built-in server is based
on the TightVNC protocols. But if not, you can get TightVNC for
Linux (as well as other platforms).

If Windows, then you have several options, one of which is TightVNC
<http://www.tightvnc.com/>

Bob Harris

[pheo...@gmail.com]

On Jul 25, 8:24 pm, Bob Harris <nospam.News....@remove.Smith-
Harris.us> wrote:
> In article
> <1185381635.047004.29...@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,

guys, guys, guys!!
forget vnc ( i have it only as backup), times have changed a lot!!
there is now something much better and faster than vnc!!

http://www.nomachine.com/

I tried it once and never went back to vnc. it works that much
better :)

Oskar

[Heath Raftery]

pheo...@gmail.com <pheo...@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP VNC discussion>

> guys, guys, guys!!
> forget vnc ( i have it only as backup), times have changed a lot!!
> there is now something much better and faster than vnc!!
>
> http://www.nomachine.com/
>
> I tried it once and never went back to vnc. it works that much
> better :)

I had a quick look at AFAICT, NoMachine is a clever X11 client/
server solution, not a general screen forwarding solution. It
appears it's only ability to handle non-X11 sessions is by
"relying on the rdesktop and TightVNC clients by encapsulating
the RDP or RFB session within the X11 session."

I couldn't imagine that being any more efficient than just using
OSXvnc and maybe Chicken. Are you simply suggesting that NoMachine
happens to be a very good VNC client?