[lug] remote xterm question...: X servers for Windows

[John E. Koontz]

At 12:02 PM 5/12/2003 -0600, Philip Cooper <Philip.Cooper at openvest.org> wrote:
>I'vefound even 100mbs eathernet connections sluggish with xterm gui 
>stuff.  If you are talking about doing this over the Internet, be sure 
>about responsivness/speed before you spend $.02.  I do everything I need 
>with puTTY, (telnet should be off in almost all circumstances).

Yes, you wouldn't use this to get a shell client, but there are lots of 
clients where the X approach provides access to something text in a shell 
window isn't - typically graphics and/or GUI widgets, sometimes font 
service (for commercial fonts).  If you just want to talk to shells, open 
an ssh window or two.

If you do need to use X facilities you can save some time by not 
secure-piping X clients, if you don't care who sees the bits.
John E. Koontz
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