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:: On the subject of utility of terminal control...Over a DSL link, I can have latency/screen draw issues when running irssi over a compressed SSH tunnel to a PuTTY window with over 7000 character cells visible. On a more general note; might I suggest folks try tying into a curses library, so we can get some more code examples in here? --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 01:38, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
::: Ok, but I think the big reason irssi uses a terminal, rather than a windowing environment (gtk or whatever), for display purposes, is backwards compatability? If the issue is proxying, you can use socks over your ssh connection. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 12:59, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
:::: I use a terminal-mode IRC client (as opposed to a GUI one such as XChat) for detachable sessions, speed and portability. While detachable, VNC, nx and RDP would all be slower than a terminal over SSH (I contend this would be true of any flexible remote console involving raster imagery), and I can find a terminal emulator for whatever platform I'm using. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:57, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
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