[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

Ryan Novosielski novosirj at rutgers.edu
Wed Jun 6 14:29:43 PDT 2018


Pretty sure your problem is X11, not the editor. VNC or FastX or NX or similar would likely solve the problem.

> On Jun 6, 2018, at 5:28 PM, David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
> Off Topic.
> 
> I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away.  No problem connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are such that my usual editor (nedit) spends far too much time redrawing to be useful.  Resizing a screen is particularly painful.
> 
> Are there any X11 GUI editors that are less sensitive to these issues?
> 
> If not I will just use nano or vim.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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