> Or does nobody use ssh X forwarding any more? For a few years I worked with a bit of peculiar setup: I had a laptop with Windows and Xming (X impl for Win) a

> Or does nobody use ssh X forwarding any more? For a few years I worked with a bit of peculiar setup: I had a laptop with Windows and Xming (X impl for Win) and a headless desktop with FreeBSD under my desk. I didn't actually use SSH X forwarding - if I remember correctly, I configured it such that X apps run on the desktop would display on my laptop communicating over LAN with a raw X protocol. So I would SSH under my desk and run gVIM, RXVT and a few other tools which displayed as windows on Win. It was cool in more ways than one, but - even in that setup - the latency, or lag, between a keystroke and the effect, was visible and occasionally irritating. It was still much better than doing the same over SSH - which was the reason why I opted for the insecure open-to-the-world X setup in the first place - and that was over a wire less than 2 meters long. Needless to say, the lag when working on remote servers over SSH was much greater than that. It was kind of OK for displaying things which (optionally) updated on their own once a second or things like that, but I would be very unhappy, to the point of quitting after a week, if I had to actually work over such a connection. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating and I could get used to it - still, the experience, when compared to running things locally or remotely, but in terminal (ie. VIM instead of gVIM), can be summarized with one word: LAG. Lots and lots of it :)