[GLLUG] Red Hat, VNC, and remote displays (was: no subject)

C. Ulrich dincht at securenym.net
Wed Oct 29 05:20:39 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 21:58, Melson, Paul wrote:
> I'm afraid I have disagree with you here.  In both cases, you have a
> client and a server.  There are some differences in the way that VNC and
> X11 handle redraw areas and color, but in the end, the X 'server' or the
> VNC client are both just displaying a bitmap on the local machine and
> the application being viewed is using resources on the remote machine.

Huh. Well I stand corrected. I had always thought there was a lot more
to it than that. Guess I should probably study my X theory some more. :)

Charles Ulrich
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