Timeline for answer to Why is X11 forwarding so inefficient? by virtex
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 11:44 | comment | added | 9a3eedi | I have found that X11 is extremely sensitive to latency. Even switching from a fast wifi connection to a fast ethernet connection, despite having similar bandwidth, can make a very big difference, simply because wifi has a lot more jitter in the latency | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | Gerry | Ahhh I never knew this background to NX. I've always been amazed by how fast it is. I just wish it was more mainstream as it doesn't look like it gets much attention any more. | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 11:25 | comment | added | i486 | I don't have deep knowledge of X11 but I guess whether libraries like GTK/Qt may be additional reason for slow remote work? | |
| Feb 2, 2019 at 4:15 | comment | added | rakslice | Latency wise, on *ix machines, X11 sessions to local displays usually use Unix domain sockets instead of TCP; Unix domain sockets are many times faster than TCP at round trips even to localhost stackoverflow.com/questions/14973942/…. For X11 apps with really pathologically large numbers of round trips, that could be the difference between okay and noticeably slow performance. | |
| Feb 15, 2018 at 17:38 | comment | added | comte | x2go worked very fine for me, even with "server" an old laptop. up&running in few minutes... big increase in performance from X11 fwd (unusable with my config) | |
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| Jun 8, 2017 at 22:00 | comment | added | sleepyweasel | Tied to the latency topic would be that X11 is going to be TCP, vs UDP for most streaming videos. There are a few other products to help with working remotely. Tony mentioned RDP and VNC. Oracle still sells Sun Global Desktop (SGD) which works well. Citrix had something (XenApp?). Our eval found SGD to be a better option for our needs, but had used two Citrix products prior. | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 16:04 | history | answered | virtex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |