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hm, I'm using X11 forwarding when I'm on my mac box to control my music player and there is pretty much no latency (and text isn't a blurry mess like rdp / vnc
by jcelerier 6y ago
hm, I'm using X11 forwarding when I'm on my mac box to control my music player and there is pretty much no latency (and text isn't a blurry mess like rdp / vnc but crisp and sharp). I'm on a gigabit network though.
- cbm-vic-20 6y agoX11 was designed at a time when local networks carried only a few megabits per second. But apps back then didn't depend on sending lots of bitmaps over the wire, just mostly drawing primitives.
- mleo 6y agoLocal network of VPN? My first attempt at running IntelliJ across VPN last year was using XQuartz and it worked, but latency was terrible and when changing connectivity it would die. Using VNC allowed the process to keep running in the server session over periods of weeks.
- tom_ 6y agoDepends on the program! - I've never minded using Emacs that way, even just over wifi, but a lot of more modern stuff is basically unusable. (I assume these programs draw everything to a local buffer, and then copy that to the screen. Probably fine locally, and I'm sure you do get more control, but it's a lot of data to go over a network!)
- jcelerier 6y agoin my case it's Strawberry which is a modern Qt 5 app. I also tried retroarch that way and it works surprisingly well.