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Re: Slow performance over VPN/cable modem
- From: "Bruce A. Hamilton" <bhami at pobox dot com>
- To: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <ruth dot ivimey-cook at ivimey dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:00:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: Slow performance over VPN/cable modem
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
At 06:25 AM 11/22/2003, you wrote:
Bruce A. Hamilton wrote:
XP Pro SP1, Pentium 2.66 GHz, 1 GB memory.
I am running the latest cygwin including XFree86 4.3.0.
Thanks for any suggestions. I'm quite sure this in an X issue. Wasn't MIT
supposed to be working on "low-bandwidth X" years ago?
Yes, they did and it's been available for a while now. You run the app
"lbxproxy" on the local end (home) set up to connect to your work server,
and then do a normal X connect to the local server connection that is
presented by lbxproxy.
This assumes the normal case, that the remote server includes the LBX
server extension.
Thanks, but I get the following error
% lbxproxy
_LBXPROXYTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
If I try to hack up a bogus root user by adding it to the cygwin
/etc/passwd, then chown says
% chown root .X11-unix
chown: changing ownership of `.X11-unix': Invalid argument
which is different than if I try to chown it to some non-existent user:
% chown foo .X11-unix
chown: `foo': invalid user
???
--Bruce (Bruce Hamilton, Redondo Beach, CA)
bhami@pobox.com
http://bhami.com/