From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Horsley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: X-windows performance over slow connections. Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:53:58 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Message-ID: <20070120175357.0f80c16a@zooty> References: <1169163354.8383.55.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169361024 5509 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2007 06:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 21 07:30:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8WDb-0003Rk-Op for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:30:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8WDb-00006L-0F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8P66-0000xs-JZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:54:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8P64-0000wS-U3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:54:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8P64-0000w8-OS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.59.1.10] (helo=pinatubo.switch.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H8P64-0003yY-Bl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.127.131.115] (helo=mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net) by pinatubo.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8P5z-0004tM-PU for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:53:59 +0100 Original-Received: from bgtnsc05-news (bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net[135.173.83.55]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11) with ESMTP id <2007012022535811100a1psve>; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:53:58 +0000 Original-Received: by bgtnsc05-news (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id WAA08293; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:53:58 GMT Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 3647a2b2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2498fc27f36bfb06be4cfdf8e9efd6f4 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net Original-X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1169333638 2498fc27f36bfb06be4cfdf8e9efd6f4 (Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:53:58 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:53:58 GMT X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:30:17 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15542 Archived-At: > >> ...When I run ssh -C -X to connect to my home system over an ADSL > >> connection (unfortunately, in the 'slow' direction), it takes > >> well over a minute to start emacs... You probably want to investigate FreeNX - I don't know how they do it, but NX connections seem almost like sitting in front of the real machine (I suspect some kind of time warp technology is involved to cancel out the long latency :-).