Can x11vnc try to apply heuristics to detect when a window is scrolling its contents and use the CopyRect encoding for a speedup?
Another nice idea for a hack! As of May/2005 x11vnc will by default apply heuristics to try to detect if the window that has the input focus is scrolling its contents (but only when x11vnc is feeding user input, keystroke or pointer, to the X server.) So, when detected, scrolls induced by dragging on a scrollbar or by typing (e.g. Up or Down arrows, hitting Return in a terminal window, etc), will show up much more quickly than via the standard x11vnc screen polling update mechanism. There will be a speedup for both slow and fast links to viewers. For slow links the speedup is mostly due to the CopyRect encoding not requiring the image data to be transmitted over the network. For fast links the speedup is primarily due to x11vnc not having to read the scrolled framebuffer data from the X server (recall that reading from the hardware framebuffer is slow.) To do this x11vnc uses the RECORD X extension to snoop the X11 protocol between the X client with the focus window and the X server. T
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