[sllug-members]: Remote Desktop Through 2 SSH Tunnels

[Corey Edwards]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 14:03 -0600, Mike Potter wrote:
> I installed TightVNC, and allowed the loopback, and it works perfectly, except 
> it is quite slow. I would rather use RD. I believe the issue is related to the 
> fact that RD is making a localhost connection, or a loopback.

On localhost VNC tries to use RAW encoding because it'll be better
quality given the unlimited bandwidth. But that fails when localhost is
really an SSH tunnel. Try forcing a compressed encoding instead:

        $ xtightvncviewer -encodings "tight copyrect" localhost:0

Corey

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