<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>The LBX Mini-HOWTO: Introduction</TITLE> <LINK HREF="LBX-2.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="LBX.html#toc1" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="LBX-2.html">Next</A> Previous <A HREF="LBX.html#toc1">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2> <P><EM>Low-Bandwidth X</EM> (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. <P>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. <P>LBX is fundamentally a compression and caching scheme designed to minimize the amount of X traffic generated between two systems. <P> <P> <HR> <A HREF="LBX-2.html">Next</A> Previous <A HREF="LBX.html#toc1">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>