wxGTK Unusably slow over the network

[Mark Clarkson]

Interesting. I'd never heard of LBX and thought you'd probably like to 
know it's dead now. (Shame as I'd like to have tried it!)

Low-Bandwidth X (LBX)

    The LBX extension is disabled by default now, although the code 
still ships in the 7.1 server. Compared to other solutions like NX and 
SSH, LBX has generally worse performance and worse security. It will be 
removed completely in 7.2; users are encouraged to migrate to better 
solutions.

( http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.1/doc/RELNOTES6.html )

Robin Dunn wrote:
> defreitas at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Another option is LBX, which caches, optimizes and compresses the 
> network stream between the app and the X-server.  I haven't used it 
> for a decade or so, but it allowed me to run X apps reasonably well 
> (slow but usable) over a 256k internet link.  They obviously were not 
> GTK2 apps, but with the level of improvement I saw then it should 
> certainly help GTK2 apps a lot today.  Back then it was a separate 
> tool, but I think it is a standard X extension now.
>
> Also consider using VNC instead of a direct X connection to the 
> machine running the app.  It is highly optimized for remote viewing of 
> GUI apps, and most implementations do a very good job.  Among other 
> uses we're using it in staff meetings to broadcast demos and such to 
> several remote employees at the same time.  Again, reducing textures 
> and bitmaps makes a big difference on how much the stream is able to 
> be compressed for the remote links, but if you are just using it over 
> a LAN then I think you'll find that it's almost like sitting in front 
> of the machine in the lab.
>