[X2Go-User] Chrome speed with x2go

[Ulrich Sibiller]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:40 PM Keith Burns <alagalah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> So many things I love about x2go over any other remote desktop solution, and I've pretty much tried them all in one flavour or another.
>
> The one thing that is really hurting me though is Chrome / webkit speed. The issue has been discussed here before a long time ago, but I didn't see much by way of resolution.
>
> This is now I suspect impacting electron based apps, which are becoming more prolific.
>
> Bouncing between my client OS and Linux isn't desirable, and in some cases isn't possible.
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> The Linux desktop is on a 200/20Mb connection with ~20ms or less RTT, which means I get screen updates from the server -> 20Mb -> client as the server is leveraging the upload speed to communicate back to the client.
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> I would imagine that 20Mb is sufficient to handle pretty much any of the encoding settings, so I am happy to try any settings.

Well, the problem is Chrome not using the Xlib API but rendering stuff
itself and pushing images over the line. Have you tested this?:
https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:development:glx-xlib-workaround
(use this description to build the latest version with llvm, which is
the fastest sw-rendering solution:
https://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html)

Regarding the compression stuff: I have written an overview about the
compression options here:
https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/issues/802

Uli



>
> Server: Ubuntu MATE 18.04, installed using apt packages. (4.1.0.3 ?)
> Client: OSX 4.1.2.1
>
> I'm a software developer so I am comfortable building from source, administering my own machine, so happy to experiment to try and get, if not resolution, at least a configuration that gets the best performance possible.
>
> Cheers
> Keith.
>
>
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