How to get apps to work on remote X displays?

[Mişu Moldovan]

Mişu Moldovan <dumol at gnome.ro> a scris:
> 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.

On a second thought, maybe your issues are related to the high latency
of your DSL connection. I have no experience with such a type of
Internet connection, sorry.

And please excuse my somewhat harsh intervention.

--
mişu
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