How to get apps to work on remote X displays?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-05-15, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> 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.
>
> Have you tried anything other than Thunar? This sounds like something
> unrelated to Xfce.

You're right, it looks like all GTK apps are unusable over a 1M DSL
link.

Tk apps are even worse -- they won't run at all:

$ skencil
X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
  Atom id in failed request:  0x1b6
  Serial number of failed request:  11
  Current serial number in output stream:  11

Motif/Lesstif apps seem to work OK.
  
> I've run Xfce over ssh on numerous occasions without this kinda
> trouble. Admittedly never Thunar, though

When did the toolkit maintainers decide to abandon network
transparancy?  Did I miss a meeting?

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