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Right now at work I have an Ubuntu workstation and I'm considering switching over to OSX but I have one major concern. I run Eclipse on our Ubuntu development server using a remote X session: basically I log into my server with ssh -X and then I launch eclipse and it pops open on my workstation and everything is great. When I do this from OSX (I tried with someone's laptop) the resulting window is really clunky, ugly and unresponsive.
Is there a better way to do this which will result in a smoother user experience?
nicolaskruchten
Posted 2011-07-30T17:20:06.653
Reputation: 153
I don't think that's an option: Eclipse needs to be able to launch/compile apps on the server, as that's where all of our libraries etc are set up... – nicolaskruchten – 2011-07-30T19:31:54.517
I really recommend you install the libraries and setup the development environment locally as doing everything through X-redirection is very inefficient. If you insist on doing it remotely, you may want to use VNC instead because the X protocol is not compressed and it only works well on LAN connections. – billc.cn – 2011-07-30T22:31:28.977
Installing libraries locally is not an option, unfortunately, and X has been working great so far as I am on a LAN... NoMachine X was an option until OSX Lion but now there's no non-PPC option for running NX :( – nicolaskruchten – 2011-07-31T15:35:26.753