X, Network transparency and ssh

[Robert Brockway]

Hi all.  During the talk last night a question arose about streaming all 
of the graphical data to a thin client via ssh.  As noted last night this 
can be very cpu intensive.  I'm running a test at the moment that 
demonstrates this well.

I'm currently running xawtv[1] over ssh to a thin client.  Xawtv is 
comsuming 56% cpu constantly on an Athlon-800 (avon).  Nothing else is 
happening on avon.  This gives an idea of how cpu intensive running even a 
single graphically intensive app via ssh can be.

[1] tvtime refuses to start.  A bit of RTFM suggests that the tvtime 
author doesn't support remote display with tvtime.  This is a bit of a 
shame.  I think I'll have to bend his ear a bit :)

One solution which enables tvtime to run in a thin client environment is 
to put tvtime _in_ the thin client and start it by sshing to the thin 
client.

Rob

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