slow paints despite fast hardware

[Phlip]

Peter Woo wrote:

> Most of the
> cryptic xf86config that you see on Linux is not applicable to Cygwin.

Yay

> I guess I am confused like the other folks on what else you could do to
> tune up Cygwin/X.  Just to limit the scope a bit - do you run slow xterm
> even just by opening up a local xterm on your Windows XP (display
> 127.0.0.1:0.0)?

The local xterm (the one that anchors the server) is fast.

  Remote Konsole - super slow
  Remote Gedit - slow
  Remote Xterm - fast!

At a guess, are some programs pushing pixels across the wire, to
assemble text, while some programs use the local fonts?

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