On Sunday 29 October 2006 21:25, Tom Patton wrote:
I remote my laptop (ssh -X) without any discernable issue. X should know when it sets up the driver in the laptop that it has a new screen to deal with...or at least that's how I thought "termcap" worked. It's been a few years since I had any issue in that regard.
The laptop is a WinXP box, because i program for WinCE GPS devices for work :(.
While text (e.g., in this mail) is a bit fuzzy, my desktop looks fairly okay, as do videos. That is: graphics looks reasonably good and text looks so-so.
I'd try native on your desktop, then see what you get from the laptop (in case you haven't thought already to try...). But if you are "used" to a 4:3 desktop, a 16:9 might not be comfortable.
i'm running the native resolution now - 1360x768 - and it all looks really nice (text and graphics). The problems are: a) i can't work productively with so little screen space. i'm used to having 1600x1200, with xemacs opened and mazimized with 4 panels showing at once, and i can't do that in this little space. b) my laptop, which i remote control from here, works at 1440x900, which this monitor can't do. The specs don't list that resolution, and it drops down to 11-something by 7-something if i try to use 1440x900. So remote control is out of the question. i am going to take this monitor back, because at high resolution (1600x1200) all text is so fuzzy that i get a headache after looking at it for more than a few minutes. i just can't work that way.
Oh, I'd ssh from a graphical console, not from Alt-Ctl-F2. That would send the wrong termcap I think.
ssh isn't an option - i have to remote control Embedded Visual C++, which means i need remote desktop/vnc. Since rdesktop isn't working for me (can never connect), i'm stuck with vnc. The alternative is working physically at the laptop, but that is *really* uncomfortable, physically, and i can't do that for more than an hour or so at a time. OTOH, i can sit and work comfortably from the desktop PC for 10+ hours at a time. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts