Speeding up X11 forwarding

[Bryan O'Neal]

I am mostly using firefox to download items that require a higher end browser from places like Oracle and IBM.  Though, the complaint has to do with a lot of GUI apps not just firefox. But the biggest problem is that this is being done on machines I blow up every few days, and thus I need fast, ready built, solutions.  Standard VNC gives me a blank xterm more often then a useful desktop. And since I use typically X11VNC or NX on more stable machines I never invested the time to figure out why standard VNC did this.  In addition I can not get NX working in under three to four hours, and it just is not worth it since I will spend anther 30 hours messing with a box before blowing it up in favor of a 20 min fresh install.

How easy (read fast) is FoxyProxy to set up?

But you are correct -C should be their.

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From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of der.hans
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:14 AM
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Subject: Re: Speeding up X11 forwarding

Am 17. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Charles Jones so:

> You could try "-c blowfish", which uses a lighter encryption so there 
> is less overhead.
> Also, depending on the type of data and the speed of the connection, 
> you may have luck with the compression "-C" option.

Listen to Charles :).

Also, don't use X if you don't need to. For instance, use FoxyProxy on Firefox on your local desktop rather than shoving Firefox through the pipe. Charles should've mentioned it as he's the one that finally got me using it :).

Lots of apps can handle using proxies.

The next version of X is supposed to be much improved for using applications remotely. In the meantime look at VNS, NxMachine and also some KDE stuff I keep hearing about.

Or, learn how to do everything in screen ;-).

ciao,

der.hans

> -Charles
>
> Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>> I am working on remote machines a lot lately, and while I have killer 
>> pipes at one end, and fairly good pipes at the other end, using X11 
>> aps like fire fox is down right painful.  Any way to speed it up 
>> through my ssh_conf or sshd_conf files?  I typically login in using 
>> -X -Y, but it will take upwards of two minutes just to launch firefox.

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