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Applications that would like to take advantage of the Low Bandwidth extension to
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X (LBX) must make their connections to an lbxproxy. These applications need to
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know nothing about LBX, they simply connect to the lbxproxy as if were a regular
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server. The lbxproxy accepts client connections, multiplexes them over a single
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connection to the X server, and performs various optimizations on the X protocol
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to make it faster over low bandwidth and/or high latency connections.
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With regard to authentication/authorization, lbxproxy simply passes along to the
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server the credentials presented by the client. Since X clients will connect to
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lbxproxy, it is important that the user's .Xauthority file contain entries with
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valid keys associated with the network ID of the proxy. lbxproxy does not get
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involved with how these entries are added to the .Xauthority file. The user is
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responsible for setting it up.
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Note that the X server source from X.Org no longer supports the LBX extension,
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so this program is only useful in connecting to older X servers.
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