How to get apps to work on remote X displays?

[Biju Chacko]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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...

You might try a compression technology like NX or lbxproxy. The improved 
bandwidth utilisation *might* mitigate the poor latency.

-- b