How to get apps to work on remote X displays?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-05-15, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> 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.

I'm currently running 2.6.3.3.

I don't often need to run X apps remotely -- it's just sad to
know that you can no longer do it.  It was always one of the
things that one could point to as an advantage of X11 over
MS-Windows.

Oh well...

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