How to speed up refresh for remote X11 displays via ssh

[Dave Feustel]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:42:27PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:09:50 -0400
> Dave Feustel wrote:
> 
> > I now have X11 via ssh working on F9, but refresh of the remote X11
> > window is extremely slow, even over a 1GB switch.  Is there a way to
> > speed up the refresh?
> 
> This is a local area network? I've only ever noticed human perceptible
> X speed problems on a lan if the network equipment was faulty and
> dropping packets and retrying like crazy (or if the app is trying to
> do something like software-only open GL over the network).

The app I am running as a remote X11 is Maple 12. 
 
> For long distance high latency connections, I use freenx which gives
> every indication that it employs magic to speed things up :-).

That's one of the options I will look into.

Thanks,
Dave Feustel