Re: replacing X Window System !

[Bart Samwel]

David Lang wrote:
> On Sat, 20 May 2006, "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 02:57:55 +0200
> > From: "\"Döhr, Markus ICC-H\"" <Markus.Doehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Did you actually do that? Starting Firefox over a 6 Mbit VPN takes 
> > about 3
> > minutes on a FAST machine. That´s not acceptable - our users want 
> > (almost)
> > immediate response to an application, to clicking and waiting 10 seconds
> > until the app is doing something.
>
> this is due to the latency, not the speed (X by default requires many 
> round-trips to startup). There is an extention that greatly reduces the 
> number of round-trips nessasary, I'm willing to bet this will make a 
> huge difference for your startup. Unfortunantly I don't remember what 
> this is.

I think it's called "lbxproxy".

Cheers,
Bart
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