slow evince and remote X

[Robbie Dude]

I'm a moron!! Your remoting in. 
Sorry!!

On 9/2/05, Norman Gaywood <norm at turing.une.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:33:05PM -0700, Robbie Dude wrote:
> > Are you running the default graphics card driver?
> 
> There are many different types of remote displays. We have over 100 of
> them. There may be all sorts of options set. As far as I can tell, none of
> them perform displaying postscript/pdf files from a remote system. Only
> raw gs seems to do any good but then you don't have scaling/paging
> and other useful viewing tools. Those displays that are not strictly
> XTerminals but are workstations or laptops all display locally with no
> problem. It's only remote displaying that is the problem.
> 
> > On 9/1/05, Norman Gaywood <norm at turing.une.edu.au> wrote:
> > > evince, and other postscript/pdf display programs are extremely slow
> > > over remote X displays. This is on a 10M/bit switched network.
> > >
> > > ghostview in FC1 also was also slow compared to what it was around RH 
> 7
> > > but the new evince (0.4.0-1.2 and older) are so slow that they are not
> > > usable for remote displays. kghostview and kpdf are slightly better
> > > but still slow.
> > >
> > > Other programs like ooffice and even "gs -sDEVICE=x11" work very well
> > > with remote X.
> > >
> > > Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> --
> Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
> School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
> University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
> 
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