Improving VNC performance with 'twm'

• Don't make the desktop deeper than you need to.
• disable the dithering on the title bar by using a solid bitmap.

In .twmrc put:

Pixmaps
{
  TitleHighlight "solid"
}

and put a bitmap file 'solid' on the bitmap path containing:

#define solid_width 4
#define solid_height 1
static char solid_bits[] = {0x0f};

You can set the X bitmap path - I have in my .Xresources:

*bitmapFilePath:/home/qsf/bitmaps
 

• make the scrollbar solid


    *Scrollbar*thumb: solid
    *Scrollbar*foreground: grey

• remove the subtle modification of the window border when it gets

focus. In .twmrc:

    NoHighlight

• use click-to-focus instead of point-to-focus (does twm allow this?)

Then the window doesn't change when your mouse just happens to move over it.