[mdlug] Odd problem w/remote X on Ubuntu 8.10

[Michael Corral]

2009-02-13, Monsieur Ingles, Raymond a ecrit:
> I run Firefox on the Linux box, and display it on the Windows box. This
> worked fine up until a few weeks ago, when I moved the box up from
> Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. Now, things display, but trying to fill in text
> boxes or bring up a right-click menu take up to seven seconds to
> respond. Very weird, and annoying. These delays don't show up when I use
> the Linux box's desktop directly (i810 graphics and all). Everything
> else seems to be about the same speed, just text boxes and pop-up menus
> are unaccountably and irritatingly slow.
>
> I tried using Xming, a different X server for Windows, but the same
> problem appeared. I suspect it's on the Ubuntu side, especially since it
> showed up moving to 8.10, but I can't figure out what it might be.
> Anyone else run into something like this?

No, never had that happen. Have you tried using something like XDMCP
instead, or Xnest on the Cygwin X server side?

Michael