Steve Litt <slitt <at> troubleshooters.com> writes: > > Hi all, > > I had to use a GUI ssh connection to edit my LyX document. It was slow. > Like 300 baud modem slow. I type about 45 wpm and I was typing 4 > characters for every one it echoed on the screen. It was soooooo 1982. > > By the way, this was on 802.11n fed by gigabit Ethernet, so it wasn't a > slow connection. > > We all know that everything is slow over ssh, especially GUI stuff. But > to me, this seems a lot slower than usual. Is there some algorithmic > reason why LyX slows down unusually over ssh -X? > > Thanks, > > SteveT > >
Hi, I have found that using compression (ssh -C ) significantly speeds up Lyx. Also if lyx starts to slow down over ssh, save the document (Ctrl s) and it will get back some speed.
