Re: A good xwin server?

From: Jeremiah Wilton <jwilton_at_bluegecko.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:14:18 -0700
Message-Id: <E0416FDB-590C-4E1C-8C85-43A2733F6052_at_bluegecko.net>

On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Andrew Kerber wrote:

> Has anyone found a reasonably fast xwindows server? On my 32 bit
> windows xp virtual machine I can get the oui to work reasonably
> fast, even connecting to a data center 4 states away to do an
> install using putty and cygwin. But when I run the OUI (or asmca or
> dbca for that matter) directly on my desktop,which is windows 7 64
> bit, and connecting initially with putty, its just dog slow on
> cygwin or xming. Is there a faster xserver out there for windows
> 64? Or maybe the problem is with windows 7 64 bit?

I can't explain the difference in performance you are experiencing between the VM guest and the PC desktop. But trying to display X windows across WANs has brought me nothing but pain and grief over the years. I pretty much use VNC exclusively when I need to display the server's desktop.

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