[H-GEN] Secure and low bandwidth X through wireless broadband.

[David Starkoff]

On 26/06/2006, at 8:49 PM, Tony Nugent wrote:

> If I recall correctly, X also has its own built-in compression
> mechanism/protocol for remote access, and it can be used in  
> conjunction with ssh
> tunnels and ssh-X11 forwarding.  But it's been a while, and I'd  
> have to read up
> to recall the gory details.

It's called "Low Bandwidth X" or "LBX".  The UQ ITEE Web site still  
hosts a how-to that I wrote about five years ago now: <http:// 
studenthelp.itee.uq.edu.au/remote/lbx.html>.  (Second on Google for  
"lbx"!  Rock!)

However, Wikipedia says "LBX was disabled by default as of X.Org  
Server 7.1, and will be removed outright from X.Org Server 7.2":  
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Bandwidth_X>.  Apparently, the  
change has already been checked in for X11R7.2: <http://wiki.x.org/ 
wiki/ChangesForX11R72>.

The official X.org line is "[t]he LBX protocol is generally  
inadequate for modern X usage": <http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ 
XorgPerformance>.  And since Keith Packard has that view, it's  
probably reasonable: <http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/lbxpost/ 
index.html>.

-- 
David.