Several weeks ago, I posted a message about using GRASS with XWindows
Servers on PC machines and received some helpful replies.
I have looked into this matter somewhat, but need to follow through on two
points, really more about XWindows than GRASS.
1) How does XWindows affect network performance?
2) The only XWindows books I have been able to find are some rather old
O'Reilly books. Are there any newer books or are those O'Reilly books still
good?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Duncan C. Kinder
dckinder@mountain.net
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Duncan Kinder wrote:
1) How does XWindows affect network performance?
I cannot notice any performance differences between console apps running
across the network and X Window apps running across the same network. Then
again, we're running fast ethernet (100 Mbps).
2) The only XWindows books I have been able to find are some rather old
O'Reilly books. Are there any newer books or are those O'Reilly books still
good?
X Window System is a server. It talks directly to your hardware and is
intermediate between the hardware and your application software. Unless you
have latent maschochistic tendencies, you don't want to program X at a very
low level. Folks use GUI client APIs such as Motif, Lesstif, Qt, gtk+ or tk.
If the API is interpreted it will be slower than if it's compiled.
HTH,
Rich
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