[Wine] speed up WINE

[Martin Gregorie]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 13:54 -0600, fachamix wrote:
> I can not.
> 
> The program MUST BE RUN in a remote way
> 
Do you have a login on the remote machine where WINE + app will run?

If so, there are two ways to proceed - ssh and VNC. Both let remote
programs open their display on your desktop and accept input from your
keyboard and mouse.

ssh: Make sure the remote machine has ssh configured to allow X.11 port
forwarding. See "man ssh" and "man ssh-config". You login to the remote
machine with ssh and enter the wine... command to start the program. The
terminal window remains open but the program's GUI appears on your
screen exactly as it would look on the remote machine's own screen. With
a little work you can encapsulate this in a shell script that's launched
by clicking a desktop icon.

VNC: vncserver must be running in the remote login where you want to run
a program. VNC provides an applet that lets you open a remote desktop
via a web browser. To use this you just point the browser at the remote
machine using the VNC port number. The server downloads the applet and
the desktop appears. Once you've done it the first time you can bookmark
the URL or past it into a web page like any other URL.

You can also run vncviewer on your local machine, tell it to connect to
the remote system and a fairly basic desktop appears. Open a terminal
window on that desktop and use that to run your program with the wine...
command. This command can also be launched by clicking a desktop icon.

VNC defaults to using the Xfce desktop which is  basic but quite
functional. You can also make it use your normal Gnome or KDE desktop
but it doesn't always look good since, in the interests of minimising
network bandwidth, VNC only uses 256 colours. 


Martin