How to get apps to work on remote X displays?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote:

>AFAICT, the GTK authors expect to be able to do millions of
>round-trips to the server everytime anything happens (no matter
>how trivial).  If you've got a link with a latency of more than
>a few hundred microseconds, you're screwed.

Yeah, this has sadly been my experience as well.  Even on a LAN I've
seen very poor performance with gtk apps.

One possibility is to try downgrading to gtk 2.6 (if that's possible
for you), and see if that helps.  2.6 is pre-cairo, which may (or may
not) halp matters a bit.

	-brian