Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] patch to allow use with OS X Screen Sharing

[Jin Choi <jsc alum mit edu>]

On Apr 1, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> tightvncviewer probably explicitly asks for a reduced colour depth /  
> pixel
> format rather than accepting the VNC server's default settings. This  
> can
> have a noticable impact over bandwidth limited links
>
> Dan.

That doesn't appear to be what's going on. It is using the default  
32bpp format, and a whole-screen load is sub-second with  
xtightvncviewer. With vinagre, you can see the screen load in strips,  
the whole screen load takes about 10 seconds or so. Window moves lag  
about five seconds, whereas with tightvnc there is sub-second lag.

It does report that it is "Using shared memory PutImage". Would this  
make a difference?