Re: gui 'slow' with remote X ?

[Krishna]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Riccardo Mottola <multix@ngi.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2008-11-24 08:58:17 +0100 Philippe Roussel <p.o.roussel@free.fr> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Nice to see there is another user. FOr me, besides, GTK2 is slow too.
>>> Cairo and Art are going to be slow. No work around. Try the faithful xlib
>>> backend, which I use regularly. It will be faster, since instead of
>>> shuffling bitmaps, it lets the server do the work, like font drawing.
>>
>> Well, I just make a quick test and xlib backend is really slow two,
>> maybe even slower than art, to display any widget. Are you using X over
>> ssh or just exporting your display ? Not that it should change anything
>> but...
>>
>> For me, gtk2 applications are quite usable.
>
> I don't know what to tell you: for me it is very fine. I use regularly X11
> export to access my various machines. Except for my laptop I do not use art
> but xlib. I think the speed is quite good, I can use GNUMail without
> problems. ProjectCenter, Ink... everything reasonably fine. Just
> applications that scroll are a pit a pain (like using PRICE).
> I also use it over 10Mbit ethernet without significant decrease. Wireless
> will be worse due to the latency.
>
> I never liked GTK2, one of the reasons being its slow display export (and
> also buggyness when it comes to endianness and different displays during
> export).
>
> I usually export by setting the display, thus I have different font caches
> and it is a tad faster, but export over SSH is pretty similar in terms of
> speed.
>
> I can even use GWorkspace, but you need to disable the desktop and the
> Tabbed Shelf.
>
>

Wondering whether disabling the backing store might help improve the
drawing speed... currently don't have a machine to try it out though.

Cheers,
 -Krishna

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