FC3 slow X perfomance over ssh

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 Paul19223 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Since upgrading from FC2 to FC3, remote X applications have slowed
> tremendously.  Before, apps like kmail were a bit laggy, but usable.  Now I
> can watch it paint the windows piece by piece.  Copying a line of text from
> a remote app caused my local X desktop (also running FC3) to lock up for
> over a minute.
>
> Possibly related to this are a bunch of X errors like
> X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
>  Major opcode:  18
>  Minor opcode:  0
>  Resource id:  0x188
> These are printed continuously in the ssh window.
>
> I'm using ssh -X -C -2 -l <username> <hostname> to log in, same as before.

Use ssh -Y not ssh -X.  It's a security thing, read the man page.

jh

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