Vnc too slow?

James "Wez" Weatherall jnw22 "at" cam.ac.uk
Mon, 08 Nov 1999 11:19:33 +0000


>  The display loads, but when I move the mouse I can see "mouse trails" and
> when I start an application it loads perfectly fast on the server but it a
> second or half a second slower in the Solaris box.
>
>  I tried all the encodings and turns out that the Raw Encoding was
fastest. I
> even switched the resolutions on the Windows machine and tried everything
from
> 640x480 all the way upto 1600x1200 and also from 256 colors to 16 million
> colors.
>
> I need some help if anyone know what am I doing wrong. or is the display
> supposed to be slow like this?

Have you accidentally set the Poll Full Screen option in the Properties
panel?  That would cause the behaviour you're seeing.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
--
          "Xenophobes should go back to Xenophobia"
Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK                              - Tel : 343000




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