slow paints despite fast hardware

[Phlip <phlip2005 at gmail dot com>]

CygWinners:

I have either Ubuntu or Mandriva on an old Dell Latitude. Alone, it's
perfectly fast. Some programs are faster than on my modern clone
running WinXP. Big surprise there.

However, when I run the latest CygWin XFree on WinXP, and connect
directly to this notebook with SSH, repaints are slow. I can run
Konsole, enter 'ls', and watch each line repaint, from left to right,
as the console scrolls.

This is probably a FAQ, but "slow" is kind'a hard to Google for these days.

Only painting is slow, as if the system must fetch each pixel, and is
missing some buffering or hardware acceleration on the WinXP side. All
other data transfers are super-fast, on a local Ethernet. Further, the
Linux X-server, with a remote client in another city, is super-fast.

This experience tells me that I simply don't know /what/ I don't know
about the XFree config files. Is there an entry somewhere that just
says 'fast = no', so I can switch that to 'yes'?

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