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From: Tim Daneliuk <tundraBOGUS@tundraware.com>
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Subject: Re: More tkinter Madness
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:26:42 -0600
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On 11/11/2015 08:12 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk <tundraBOGUS@tundraware.com> writes:
>> Some months ago, I put it on a couple of VPS servers (FreeBSD
>> and Linux) and BOOM, it doesn't run.  I asked around here and got some
>> suggestions and then did some homework.
> 
> I'd expect a VPS server to have no display--is it an X client forward to
> your workstation?  Are all the proper X libraries installed?  Note that
> X port forwarding over the internet is generally unusable even if your
> internet connection is pretty fast.  It's kind of ok over a LAN.
> 

twander is a very, very ligthweight file browser with minimal GUI load.
It's always worked well even with X forwarded over an ssh session over the
open internet.

I will further investigate the X libs matter.