Multiple windows?

[W. Brian Blevins]

Todd and Scott,

> From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam "at" codegnome.org>
> Subject: Re: Multiple windows?
> 
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Scott Ellsworth wrote:
> 
> > Many X servers, such as XWin 32, allow you to pop separate windows up
> > on your Win32 desktop for each xterm, rather than having a single X
> > desktop that has windows floating in it.  (This is not the same as
> > full screen.  This allows you to treat the individual xterms as
> > (nearly)  separate apps.
> 
> That's because they ARE seperate apps. Under X, each client is a seperate
> process. VNC does things differently. It's exporting the entire screen to
> your local display, not individual X clients. If you really need the added
> speed of true X, I would recommend looking into Exceed (list US$550).
> 
> - -- 
> Todd A. Jacobs
> Senior Network Consultant

Make sure that "copyrect" is enabled.  Also, if you are using twm, make
sure that you have "OpaqueMove" set in ".twmrc".  That way, window drags
will invoke copyrect instead of drawing the window frame, which is
actually slower over VNC.

-- 
Brian 
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