[linux-audio-user] Encrypted remote X11 app (Was Unencrypted remote X11 app, Was: headless audio apps)

[Russell Hanaghan]

On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 00:39, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> söndagen den 1 augusti 2004 04.51 skrev Joe Hartley:
> > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:20:22 -0400
> >
> > Chris Pickett <chris.pickett at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> > > Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
> > > > Unless our terminologies are reversed: I usually refer to the X
> > > > "server" side to be the remote, and the "display client" to be the
> > > > "local".  My apologies if we're talking about it from opposite sides.
> > >
> > > The X server is what you have on your machine.  It handles display
> > > requests from client applications (possibly run remotely).
> > >
> > > At least, that's my limited understanding of how it's meant to work.
> >
> > Chris has it correct, which often seems bass-ackwards to the way people
> > think of client/server stuff.  The X server is what's running on the
> > machine with the display.  The client app runs remotely (usually on a
> > server, complicating the terminology!) and displays on the server.
> >
> > I'm coming in late to the conversation, but I absolutely agree that
> > while it's easier and more secure to remotely display X audio apps over
> > ssh, the processing power is often unacceptably high.
> 
> At times I've run soundapps over VNC with great results. Infact, running VNC 
> to the local machine does infact improve lowlatency behaviour. Probably due 
> to hardware acceleration being basically disabled.
> 
> But, VNC has one big drawback, it can at the moment only export whole 
> displays, not separate programs. Integration wise it sucks.
> 
> Though I think I read somewhere that VNC (or possible tightvnc) is going to 
> support separate apps soon...?!
> 
> /Robert

Is XDMCP running over ssh? I'm using it on MDK 10 to port the display to
my WInblows XP laptop thru X-Win32.  Works great. It was having a
problem with Keepalive timeouts and the session dying. I think the
machine was going into suspend. I changed the settings in the BIOS and
it has been fine since. I leave VNC running as a backup in case the
other dies! 

I use the thing at gigs this way...although still working out minor
bugs, it is reliable and robust.

R~