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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xaps over ppp connection (Q) Date: 20 Oct 1996 14:25:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <54dcpg$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <325CF4EC.57A3@foto.infi.net> <53jgb8$rk8@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <53ji49$dd9@usenet.bridge.com> <543e59$mhl@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nvp@cs.buffalo.edu (Nathan V Patwardhan) wrote: > : I have done X over a 14.4 line, I think you are being to hard on it. > > Really ... what? I'd be interested in knowing what you ran. I found that > programs that sent large bitmaps, like Frame or xv took _ages_ to load, > where smaller programs, like emacs (no colors), or xbiff (aformentioned) > were more reasonable. That's normal. Colors don't hurt much, but large pixmaps take time, of course. Since text drawing is done on the server, where only 8 or 16 bits per char are being sent to the server (while the server needs to have access to the desired font), text including normal pulldown menues etc. is reasonably fast. Note that dumping large piles of .Xresources into the server at login time requires these data to be transferred to each client when the client starts. Therefore, avoid this method if you know you gotta use slow transport lines, and use app-defaults files on the client machine instead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)