How to get apps to work on remote X displays?

[Mişu Moldovan]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> a scris:
[snip]
>
> 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.

That's ridiculous... I frequently start GTK+ apps remotely, most of
the time in a 100M LAN, but also over my Internet connection. The only
time I really *feel* the difference is when I open files in a
picture viewer. Granted, playing movies is also problematic, but not
impossible. That's usually between three workstations with Debian Sarge
(gtk 2.6), Etch (gtk 2.8) and Gentoo 2007.0 (gtk 2.10).

I would recommend the "-Y" switch over the "-X" one, see the ssh(1) man
page for details. In the times when my Internet connection was limited
to 128 kbps (that's 16 kB/s, folks) I was also using the "-C" switch,
which enables compression, preferably with "-c blowfish" for a faster
cypher specification.

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mişu
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