Speeding up X11 forwarding

[Kevin Buettner]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:37:30 -0700
"Bryan O'Neal" <BONeal at cornerstonehome.com> 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.

I've found that VNC works pretty well for running X apps remotely.

Kevin