[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

[David Mathog]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:29:52 "Gavin W. Burris" wrote:
> I came here to say what Ryan just did.
> 
> X11 < VNC < NX < FastX

My experience with X11 and VNC for on campus connections was that the 
speed order was the other way around for those two.  Perhaps it matters 
which VNC is used.

NX is the Siemen's product or something else?

FastX is a Starnet product and due to a long ago dispute they are on my 
personal "never do business with" list.

Just in case this was an nedit only issue I also tried Mousepad 
remotely, but the startup was just as slow.  The menus would open in one 
fell swoop instead of being written top to bottom and then bottom to 
top.  However, the menus were just as unusable, with long lags after 
selecting an item.  Window resizing worked much better with Mousepad 
than nedit, with the latter apparently doing many more redraws.

So far it looks like the best bet for any major editing is to download 
the file, edit locally, and upload.  Be that explicitly or via some 
remote mount file system.

Thanks all,


David Mathog
mathog at caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech