Very slow refresh on remote desktop with X2Go
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hybrid...@gmail.com,
Jun 13 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.86 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. have a remote Linux Desktop with X2Go (tried with MATE and XFCE) 2. run Chromium and make a google search or go to youtube then scroll down the page What is the expected behavior? Scrolling should be fast and smooth (at least, not too far from what can be achieved on a local Linux desktop or even near the speed and smoothness we can get with RDP on a Windows computer) What went wrong? Depending on the session settings (best for me are 64k-jpeg/LAN on a real LAN network in 1920x1080) the scroll is mostly choppy to unbearably slow but never smooth as it can be on a local Linux desktop. This is Chrome/Chromium specific problem (well, most probably webkit specific since I have the same problem with webkit based applications such as ATOM Editor, Rocket.chat and some other "web based apps") since every "native" desktop apps are running extremely smooth such as Gimp, Inkscape, Libreoffice, .... Firefox suffer the same problem unless you enable xrender in the about:config settings. My setup is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with latest (and even beta/nightlies) X2Go/NX-Libs builds. One thing I discover is that in the Ubuntu repository, there are 2 chromium-browser versions available : latest one (currently 58.0.3029.110-0ubuntu0.16.04.1281) and an older one (49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.1233) This older one, while not beeing as smooth as other native applications, is far smoother than current release. I don't know what has changed in between these releases that could explain that. Anyway, even with this older release, Chromium is pretty slow to refresh its UI and the pages in this situation. I guess it relies on proper GLX support which is not available in this configuration and it doesn't fallback to a more classical XRender mode which works best in this situation. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 59.0.3071.86 Channel: stable OS Version: 58.0.3029.110-0ubuntu0.16.04.1281 Flash Version: X2Go is becoming the "de facto" open source standard for remote desktop in the Linux world (if you let proprietary solutions such as VMWare VDI or Citrix outside the scope) but its a pity to see that web browsers (since even Firefox is concerned) are badly working in this setup while it works pretty well on Windows with RDP. It slows down Linux based Thin Clients adoption since nowadays, web browsers are the most used application on a system. Please, consider us and make something for lower specs platforms and remote desktop solutions.
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Jun 19 2017
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Jun 19 2017
@MTV Team-- Could someone from MTV team look into this, as inhouse team doesn't have permissions to establish remote desktop connections. Thanks!
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Sep 25 2017
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Sep 25 2017
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Apr 24 2018
Hi, Any news on that side ? Running Chromium/Chrome from X2Go remote desktop is still pretty sluggish.
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Nov 22
*** UI Mass Triage *** adding labels for expert review |
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Comment 1 by hybrid...@gmail.com
, Jun 13 2017