>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>>>> "N" == N J Doye <nic(a)niss.ac.uk> writes:
N> One can not run an XEmacs (gnuclient) X window frame over a
N> 28.8 modem. Using the scrollbar is painful to say the
N> least. This is not the case with FSF Emacs, which
N> starts/displays faster and has a usable scrollbar.
SJT> I prefer `gnuclient -nw' because it starts faster and doesn't spend
SJT> time futzing with icons, but using lbxproxy makes an X window frame
SJT> usable (once the icons are downloaded) down to 14.4kbps for me (and
SJT> it's actually lbxproxy talking over the modem line to an LBX-enabled
SJT> xnest running on top of an ancient RedHat Sparc/Linux 4.0 X server on
SJT> an even more ancient Sparc ELC).
I've never played with the lbx stuff, but I've used DXPC which helps quite
a bit too and it isn't tied to X11R6:
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~zvonler/dxpc/
Chuck
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Charles K. Hines <chuck_hines(a)vnet.ibm.com>
IBM Logic Synthesis Developer [BooleDozer (TM)]
Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis and Balintawak Escrima]
"Go back to sleep, Chuck. You're just havin' a nightmare
-- of course, we ARE still in Hell." (Gary Larson)
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