Another thing which can help performance of tunneled X11 is forcing your connection to use arcfour or blowfish as its cipher. While arcfour is the much-reviled RC4, it is usually the fastest choice; blowfish is a good alternative.
A fast cipher combined with compression is a powerful combination for running single apps. Note that there isn't much which can help Firefox running over a WAN X11 though. ;) --Matt -- Matt Lewandowsky Big Geek Greenviolet [email protected] http://www.greenviolet.net +1 415 578 5782 (US) +44 844 484 8254 (UK) Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. From: Alec Habig Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 07:07 To: Lamar Owen Cc: Scientific Linux Users Subject: Re: ssh -X xinit failure Also consider using the "-C" option as well: compresses the stream. Raw X packets compress nicely. On a limited bandwidth connection this makes a huge difference: on a high bandwidth connection, the extra compress/decompress latency might be more annoying. -- Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept. [email protected] http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/
