[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

Hernan Olivera lholivera at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 10:03:59 PDT 2018


Hi all

I've solved this using RDP instead VNC, with very improved velocity. You
have to deal with installing and configuring it in the server, but it works
fine.

Cheers

2018-06-07 13:36 GMT-03:00 David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu>:

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:29:52 "Gavin W. Burris" wrote:
>
>> I came here to say what Ryan just did.
>>
>> X11 < VNC < NX < FastX
>>
>
> My experience with X11 and VNC for on campus connections was that the
> speed order was the other way around for those two.  Perhaps it matters
> which VNC is used.
>
> NX is the Siemen's product or something else?
>
> FastX is a Starnet product and due to a long ago dispute they are on my
> personal "never do business with" list.
>
> Just in case this was an nedit only issue I also tried Mousepad remotely,
> but the startup was just as slow.  The menus would open in one fell swoop
> instead of being written top to bottom and then bottom to top.  However,
> the menus were just as unusable, with long lags after selecting an item.
> Window resizing worked much better with Mousepad than nedit, with the
> latter apparently doing many more redraws.
>
> So far it looks like the best bet for any major editing is to download the
> file, edit locally, and upload.  Be that explicitly or via some remote
> mount file system.
>
> Thanks all,
>
>
>
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
>



-- 
Hernan Olivera
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20180607/e62ed1e6/attachment.html>


More information about the Beowulf mailing list