FreeNX is very unresponsive compare to VNC when using over LAN

Posted by Phuong Nguyen on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Phuong Nguyen
Published on 2010-10-03T14:10:58Z Indexed on 2011/02/03 7:27 UTC
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I find FreeNX is quite unresponsive compare to VNC when using over LAN. I run Netbeans inside a Quad Core Server and remote desktop to it through both NX & VNC. For VNC, the screen will be nicely updated as I scroll the Netbean IDE For FreeNX, flickering happened and the mouse cursor become unresponsive as I tried to do the samething. Have anyone encountered the same? I don't like VNC because when VNC doesnot correctly understand the "Windows" key (interpreted as Super L instead of Mod)

Is there any adjustment that can avoid that annoyance?

I have tried both FreeNX-Server and NeatX-Server and both resulted in the same unresponsiveness.

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