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

[Hernan Olivera]

Hi all

I've solved this using RDP instead VNC, with very improved velocity. You
have to deal with installing and configuring it in the server, but it works
fine.

Cheers

2018-06-07 13:36 GMT-03:00 David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu>:

> 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
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Hernan Olivera
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