On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Troeder <dan...@admin-box.com> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: >> Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was >> surprised too. My laptop and the "remote" system are 15 feet away >> from each other on the same wireless network, with the router in >> between. > Most X programs store their bitmaps in the X server - not the program. > You can see this if you look at the memory usage. So lots of data is > transfered if using gimp :) > > BTW: If you can use cable instead of wireless, you may have a _much_ > better experience, because of the latency that wireless adds. > > BTW2: If your bandwidth is really small, you should use VNC instead of > ssh-X - though that's not to nice with image editing :)
NX is the king... it's about a million times faster than VNC or ssh X forwarding (or windows RDP). net-misc/nxserver-freeedition is at the top of my "must have" list. viewing full-screen images or working with gimp probably won't be a treat no matter what, but it'd probably be many orders of magnitude faster than ssh forwarding.
