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rubenvb

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Registered: 2011-01-14

Posts: 104

Oxygen-GTK causes massive network usage for apps running over SSH

In an attempt to streamline the look of GTK apps running over SSH on my KDE desktop, I installed the oxygen-gtk package on the server, and modified the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the contents given on the wiki.

This works great (the look and feel is what it should be), but every action I take on the remote GUI app takes about 10x longer than without this change. I understand this is the theme's fault, but can I not optimize this somehow for network usage? Would there be a way to tell ssh to use my locally installed oxygen-gtk instead of that on the remote, or reduce the size of the used graphics?

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 2,481

Re: Oxygen-GTK causes massive network usage for apps running over SSH

It is a theme fault in the sense that it is not designed for network usage, it is an ssh fault in the sense rhat it does not accelerate gradient drawings:and so on on the client side.
You have the option to enable ssh compression to gain some speed, or replace the theme to something very basic.
However the best option is to use something like x2go which does a really good job in forwarding the entire desktop or just:remote windows.
As a side note for qt apps, setting the qt graphics system to native instead of raster:provides a nice speed boost too.

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