Brad, I have used 'ssh -X' between Cygwin's X server and a remote NetBeans with some success, but it's usually glitchy. I don't see problems often using a Linux X server, so I think that the problem is in the Windows X server.
To work around the glitches, I have either used an Ubuntu virtual machine to provide a Linux server/desktop, which works well with the ssh tunnel, or my go-to solution is to use VNC or RDP instead on the Netbeans side of the world and the corresponding windows client locally. That works very well for remote connections from home. TeamViewer works well too. In addition to the menus and windows behaving as expected on the remote desktop, those protocols optimize bandwidth based on the display, which greatly improves performance compared to sending X events through the ssh tunnel. Peter ________________________________ From: Brad Walker <bwal...@musings.com> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2024 9:44 AM To: dev@netbeans.apache.org <dev@netbeans.apache.org> Subject: bug in Netbeans - need help I've encountered a bug in Netbeans and need some help to figure this out. What I'm doing is running the dev. branch of netbeans on a Linux box but displaying the screen on a remote Windows PC running a XServer. I log into the Linux box using "ssh -X ...".. It actually works pretty well, overall. When I click on the "File->New File..." button, the popup shows properly. When I click on the "File->Open File..." button, the popup shows briefly (i.e. a few seconds). Then the pop-up disappears. I'm really at a loss of how to go about getting additional details to debug where this issue might reside. Any suggestions? -brad w.
