[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/22/24 08:10, Simon Clubley wrote:
> If anyone is doing anything with xhost for X11 these days, they are 
> doing it _very_ wrong. :-)

I agree with that.

> The only acceptable way to run X11 remotely is over ssh (and that is 
> with "ssh -X" and not "ssh -Y").

I don't agree with that.

I don't need to use ssh to run between two systems in my home or over a 
cross over cable.

xauth (in a trusted LAN) works sufficiently well, is native to 
contemporary X, and doesn't incur the ssh overhead.

> When running in a lower-bandwidth situation, what are the bandwidth
> requirements with the above approach, versus running the X11 protocol
> directly over ssh ?

I've found that X11 is one of the fatter remote GUI protocols.  RDP and 
VNC tend to be lighter.

But, RDP and VNC tend to imply a full desktop whereas X easily has 
programs from different hosts display as windows on a single X server.

There are some hacks to emulate this with RDP and VNC, but they are not 
native and not reliable.



-- 
Grant. . . .