VNC versus XQuartz and the Raspberry Pi
Dec. 16th, 2015 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylWithout homebrew on my mac, I've using the Raspberry Pi to work on a few bits and pieces that need the usual standard command line tool chain.
Having configured the Pi to start TightVNC at boot, I'd been accessing the system using Screen Sharing on my Mac. But it quickly became apparent that the performance was dismal, despite my best efforts to improve it: I suspect the cost of constantly generating jpegs is just too much for the server.
Eventually I decided to bite the bullet and, after discovering that X11.app was no longer included in OSX, I installed XQuartz. This resolved all the performance problems I'd been seeing at the cost of reduced resilience; unsurprisingly, the connections to the X applications drop whenver Mac going into sleep mode. So, an improvement in many ways, but not an ideal solution...
Having configured the Pi to start TightVNC at boot, I'd been accessing the system using Screen Sharing on my Mac. But it quickly became apparent that the performance was dismal, despite my best efforts to improve it: I suspect the cost of constantly generating jpegs is just too much for the server.
Eventually I decided to bite the bullet and, after discovering that X11.app was no longer included in OSX, I installed XQuartz. This resolved all the performance problems I'd been seeing at the cost of reduced resilience; unsurprisingly, the connections to the X applications drop whenver Mac going into sleep mode. So, an improvement in many ways, but not an ideal solution...
