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Re: X performance slow after Cygwin/Windows updates
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:47:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: X performance slow after Cygwin/Windows updates
- References: <20040718162133.GA24079@shavian.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Abhinandan Jain wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just did a clean installation of Windows XP and applied all the
> updates. I also updated to the latest Cygwin.
>
> I use ssh (with X11 forwarding enabled) to access remote computers.
> However I am finding that while ascii information comes across fine,
> displaying anything graphical (including an xemacs window) essentially
> grinds down to a crawl. Things used to work great before the upgrades.
>
> Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
> Abhi
Just a guess, based on your use of ssh: are you using "trusted X11
forwarding"? See
<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding>.
Igor
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