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Low-Bandwidth X (LBX) attempts to recognize that in this day
and age, not everyone will be a fast LAN hop or two away from the system
that they are running their applications on.
The X protocol can generate an extraordinary amount of traffic,
especially for simple-seeming things such as creating new windows. As
anyone who has tried to use X over a dial-in modem at 28.8 or even
higher can attest, creating new X windows can involve an excruciating
wait.
LBX is fundamentally a compression and caching scheme designed to
minimize the amount of X traffic generated between two systems.
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