renjant

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Hi All,

I am connecting to a LINUX box using putty from a windows box(ssh connection).

I have Xming installed in my machine..my aim is to have GUI for linux.

then i have exported the display like below.

export DISPLAY=my windows machineip:0.0

Next step is in the linux box i ll execute a script which will pop up a configuration window.

Here i am getting the config window or wizard but the problem is ..... its too slow and finally it is getting stuck(config window is loading very slow and diifcult to move forward).

Can anyone tel me why this is happening and how i can tackle this situation.??Any tuning i can make in this.

Please help.

theNbomr

If you connect to Linux with putty, then try enabling X tunneling. Once you do that, $DISPLAY will be automatically set up on the Linux host, and applications needing X will just run. The value of $DISPLAY will be something like 'localhost:10', where the '10' will be some smallish integer value.
If speed is still an issue, try running some tests on the network: simple file transfer speeds using scp for instance. Is the problem restricted to a particular class of applications, or to all programs?
--- rod.

pwalden

ssh X tunneling does some X protocol compression, so that may help. If you need more improvement look into adding a low bandwidth X proxy (libxproxy) in addition to the ssh tunneling.