slow evince and remote X

[Norman Gaywood]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:33:05PM -0700, Robbie Dude wrote:
> Are you running the default graphics card driver?

There are many different types of remote displays. We have over 100 of
them. There may be all sorts of options set. As far as I can tell, none of
them perform displaying postscript/pdf files from a remote system. Only
raw gs seems to do any good but then you don't have scaling/paging
and other useful viewing tools. Those displays that are not strictly
XTerminals but are workstations or laptops all display locally with no
problem. It's only remote displaying that is the problem.

> On 9/1/05, Norman Gaywood <norm at turing.une.edu.au> wrote:
> > evince, and other postscript/pdf display programs are extremely slow
> > over remote X displays. This is on a 10M/bit switched network.
> > 
> > ghostview in FC1 also was also slow compared to what it was around RH 7
> > but the new evince (0.4.0-1.2 and older) are so slow that they are not
> > usable for remote displays. kghostview and kpdf are slightly better
> > but still slow.
> > 
> > Other programs like ooffice and even "gs -sDEVICE=x11" work very well
> > with remote X.
> > 
> > Anyone else seeing this?

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