Re: X-windows performance over slow connections.

[Andreas Schwab]

Bill Zaumen <zaumen@pacbell.net> writes:

> Unfortunately, disabling decorations in X resources is a bit
> problematic for what I'm doing: the problem came up when I was trying
> to use a system at home from a coffee shop using a laptop, connecting
> to my desktop system via ssh, but I would also use emacs on the laptop
> to edit files there, so both were using the same X server, sometimes
> at the same time.  Given that I'm using a slow connection infrequently,
> making emacs less capable the rest of the time is not an attractive
> option.

You can use a different resource name for the less capable instance, or
pass the modified resources directly on the command line with --xrm.

Andreas.

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