How to get apps to work on remote X displays?

[Ken Moffat]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> What do you have to do to make apps like thunar work on remote
> displays?
>
> When I try to run thunar through a 1M DSL link, it takes about
> 4-5 minutes to start, and antime there's an expose event, the
> window freezes for several minutes.
>
>   
I usually use ssh to run X apps remotely, using an xterm. "ssh -X 
hostname", then just type thunar in the remote xterm, which opens here 
almost immediately. This is not exactly a remote display, since it is 
using the display on the remote machine, but it runs the app on the host 
with the display on the remote. ssh must have "X11Forwarding yes" in the 
/etc/ssh/sshd_config file.

This might at least help you isolate the problem.