Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > On 2017-10-09, alister via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > >> or if you want the luxury of a GUI editor simply ssh to the remote >> machine & run the editor there (using X forwarding to route the >> display to you local PC) > > AFAICT, most modern GUI toolkits are no longer usable via X forwarding > at sub-gigabit network speeds. The toolkit designers have botched > things up so that even the most trivial operation requires hundreds of > round-trips between server and client.
Yep. Funny thing is, xterm runs nicely over a 9,600-baud line, but there's no hope to get Firefox, Evince or the like to run over a 1,500,000 bps connection. Latency is more of an issue than throughput, indicating that those round-trips are sequential. X11 was designed to be pipelined but the toolkits can't pipeline themselves. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
