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[Discuss] vnc



On 8/24/2014 3:59 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> our team has their own display number for VNC. I also tested vnc against
> xming, and I found that VNC tended to have better performance.

If you're comparing VNC to XDMCP then VNC will be better. VNC transmits
only those areas of the framebuffer that change whereas XDMCP transmits
the entire framebuffer. Addressing this inefficiency is one of the
reasons why VNC was originally developed.

-- 
Rich P.



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