On 8/18/2010 11:55 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Alberto Canestrelli wrote: >> Hi, >> I have a problem with Cygwin. I am connecting from USA by ssh to the Hector >> supermachine in Edinburgh ( I write "startx" in Cygwin and then I use "ssh >> -Y v1aca...@login.hector.ac.uk" ). Everything works fine, the only problem >> is that the forwarding of the windows is very very slow. > > Hi Alberto, > It would be useful if you could try a non-Cygwin X server (e.g. a > Linux or Solaris workstation). If X from under Linux appears fast, > then the slowdown could be between your network card and display > (probably Cygwin's fault). If X from Linux is also slow, the problem > may be with the propagation of the X protocol between your network > card and Hector (probably not Cygwin's fault) .
You could also try enabling compression with -C. I have found this to be a necessity when connecting with X over ssh between work and home even though the locations are quite near each other and plain text based ssh access runs fine without the compression. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
