Re: QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09May2012 01:45, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: | On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: | > On 05/08/2012 10:18 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: | >> The "native" graphics engine uses regular X11, which will probably | >> always be best over SSH. | >> Qt also respects the QT_GRAPHICSS

Re: QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-09 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 05/08/2012 10:18 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> The default is the "raster" graphics engine, which works somewhat like >> you described in your original e-mail: >> http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/12/18/qt-graphics-and-performance-the-ra

Re: QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 05/08/2012 10:18 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > The default is the "raster" graphics engine, which works somewhat like > you described in your original e-mail: > http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/12/18/qt-graphics-and-performance-the-raster-engine/ > > The "native" graphics engine uses regular X1

Re: QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08May2012 13:18, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: | >> Is `ssh -Y localhost kate -graphicssystem native` faster? | > | > Absolutely yes! The speed is normal again. | > I also tried "-graphicssystem raster" which is slw, | > and "-graphicssystem opengl" which is bugged (pieces of the GUI are | > mi

Re: QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-08 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 05/08/2012 09:40 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> An additional test, on the F16 machine: >>> - "kate" is normally fast >>> - "ssh -Y localhost kate" is slooow >>>

Re: QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 05/08/2012 09:40 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> An additional test, on the F16 machine: >> - "kate" is normally fast >> - "ssh -Y localhost kate" is slooow >> >> What is happening here > > Is `ssh -Y localhost kate -

Re: QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-08 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Hi, > > some exported (ssh -Y) applications are unbelievably slow, as they > seem to "upload bitmaps" (display is progressively drawn from top to bottom > and network traffic is 11.2MB/s, saturated 100Mbit/s). > > This happens only with qt4 a

QT4 apps slooooow in ssh

2012-05-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Hi, some exported (ssh -Y) applications are unbelievably slow, as they seem to "upload bitmaps" (display is progressively drawn from top to bottom and network traffic is 11.2MB/s, saturated 100Mbit/s). This happens only with qt4 apps (e.g. kate), no problem with qt3 apps or gtk apps. The qt4 app