Issue

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Issue

• Poor X11 performance is observed while connecting to RHEL5 system from Windows using Hummingbird Exceed
• On windows system make sure Exceed is running, ssh to the RHEL5 box and then run the below commands

export DISPLAY=IP.of.Windows.system:0.0
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
cd /usr/local/eclipse-3.4.1/eclipse
./eclipse -data /home/user1/workspace-adam &

• Screen refresh of the eclsipe Xwindow gui is very slow compared to when the same process done for RHEL4 box.

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• eclipse-3.4.1
• Hummingbird Exceed-8.0 on Windows OS

Resolution

• Use compression option with ssh while connecting from remote system.

• In ssh command provided with Linux you can use '-C' switch for compression. Look for similar option in ssh client on Windows.

• Try using any other X application on Windows

• Below are few examples.

Xming

X-Win32

Cygwin