Re: Adventures in GNOME... X Terminals A-Go-Go!

["Dmitry G. Mastrukov" =?koi8-r?q?=E4=CD=C9=D4=D2=C9=CA_?==?koi8-r?q?=E7=C5=CE=CE=C1=C4=D8=C5=D7=C9=DE_?==?koi8-r?q?=ED=C1=D3=D4=D2=C0=CB=CF=D7?= <dmitry taurussoft org>]

Hi, Jeff

В Втр, 03.09.2002, в 11:52, Jeff Waugh написал:
> 
> 
> I'll skip the PXE booting and nfs-root mounting polava, and cut right to the
> chase: G2D on X Terminal == Hurtage! Here are some hints to make it nicer:
> 
>   - Avoid client-side rendering as much as possible
> 
>     This means turning off anti-aliasing, because XFT is client-side (fonts
>     don't look so bad without it anyway).
>     
>     It also means turning off Nautilus on the desktop, because the canvas is
>     primarily client-side. Dragging windows around with Nautilus on the
>     desktop hurts, as does rubber banding around icons (rubber banding empty
>     spaces isn't too bad). Pretty much anything that uses the canvas will be
>     slow.
>     
>     Menu icons are done client-side too, so if you turn them off, menus will
>     be faster. They'll also be uglier and harder to read. ;-)
> 
>   - Choose an easy-to-render GTK+ theme
> 
>     That means low-pixmap count, and very few things to draw... hooray for
>     ThinIce! I have a de-blued gtkrc called DeepIce (for 1.x and 2.x) if
>     anyone wants it - makes things a bit easier on the eyes.
> 
>   - Use a single-colour desktop background
> 
>     Yeah. :-)
> 
> I'm gathering tips and stuff to help out with the administrator's guide, so
> please let me know if there's anything else that would help. Very interested
> in patches and modifications that make G2D work better over remote X...
> Federico had a canvas patch that needs more testing, stuff like that.
> 
My employer let me setup test X-terminal enviroment. We have Athlon-850
server with 256 Mb (PostgreSQL, Samba TNG and Apache also running)
without monitor and 4 diskless X-terminals (K6-2 500 and Celeron-300
with Riva TNT2 Vanta and S3 Trio 64V2). Network is 100Mb Ethernet with
switched hub. All terminal soft are from ltsp.org and ltsp.ru.
I haven't expirienced all your troubles at all! Antialiasing, Nau,
gradient background with transparent picture above it, menu icons - all
work very quick. More of that - IMHO one of advantages of terminal
solution is client-side rendering so its no need to have power
X-terminal, only power server (seems more RAM is better than more MHz
for server).
I think you have problems with your setup (old X-server?). Take a look
at ltsp.org, may be you'll find the solution there.

Regards,
Dmitry