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