How does one run "modern" X11 apps remotely? Using ssh -X or ssh -Y works fine for older applications, but not for things that use "modern" toolkits. Modern tookit designers appear to have adopted a life mission to maximize the number of client-server round-trips required for even a trivial event like a keystroke in a text box.
As a result, even with a 5-10Mbps remote connection, it takes several minutes to enter a string of even a few characters. A mouseclick on a button can take a minute or two to get processed. Resizing a window pretty much means it's time for a cuppa. Opening chrome and loading a web page can take 10-15 minutes. No activity at all on the screen, but the network connection to the remote machine is saturated at 5Mbps for minutes at a time. WTF? Something like LibreOffice is completely unusable. Even something "lightweight" like atril is so slow it's barely usable. I do not want a "remote desktop". I just want to run a single application on a remote machine and have its window show up locally. Back in the day, I used to run X11 apps remotely through dial-up connections, and most of them were a little sluggish but still actually usable... X11 transparent network support was its killer feature, but for all practical purpopses, that feature seems to have been killed. -- Grant
