[X2Go-Dev] occurrence of sluggishness in X2Go

[Arnold Krille]

On Friday 01 June 2012 08:32:40 Mike Gabriel wrote:
> just for the record and to let people know about current work focus...
> 
> People (esp. John) have reported occurrences of a very sluggish
> behaviour of various applications when run in X2Go sessions.

Add me to that list (and my co-workers).

> We developers can now confirm this. Ubuntu users reported this
> earlier, Debian user can now also experience such a sluggishness.
> 
> Reproduce on Debian:
> 
>    * add squeeze-backports archive to your system
>    * install iceweasel (esr version)
> 
> This will drag in a libcairo from squeeze backports that is very
> probably the cause for making some applications very slow within X2Go
> sessions.
> 
> Libcairo is used in all GTK applications and is a layer between GTK
> and the rendering backend (X11, OpenGL, ...). With some recent version
> of libcairo the sluggishness got introduced...

Would it help to mask/block the libcairo from squeeze-backports? Or test with 
a newer version from wheezy? Maybe I can squeeze that in next week...

Have fun,

Arnold
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