On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Only the most primitive X11 apps are at all fast over network > forwarding. If the app uses any modern toolkit, then it's basically > just sending a bunch of bitmaps over the wire (changes), which would be > fine, but X11 involves a lot of server round trips. Forwarding works > fine over SSH on a LAN (compression with -X helps too), but anything > slower than that is very nearly unusable. I used to run XEmacs over a > modem (I know; I just preferred it to Emacs and I didn't know ViM), and > it worked great with server-side drawing and fonts, as X11 was designed > to do 90s-style. But now if I need to run X11 apps over a slower link > these days I use OpenNX which dramatically helps by eliminating round > trips, and applying bitmap compression. But the fact remains X11 kind > of sucks these days, and "network transparency" now basically means a > slightly suckier version of VNC in effect. RDP protocol is actually > much more efficient than X11 forwarding with modern apps. So your > rdesktop example is actually not a horribly inefficient X11 connection, > other than the fact that X11 is inefficient. Honestly once Wayland has > per-app RDP built into it, there'll be no reason at all to cheer for X11.
Hmm. I'm not sure that it's necessarily that bad; I've done 3G-based X11 forwarding fairly successfully on occasion. Yes, it's potentially quite slow, but it certainly works - I've used SciTE, for instance, and I've used some GTK2 apps without problems. What do you mean by "modern toolkit"? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
