X11 forwarding over ssh seems to be slow on Wayland

I am using a Synopsys tool on a remote server. While X11 forwarding does work, it is noticeably unresponsive and slow. It is slower than using mobaXterm on Windows, which convinces me that this is a Wayland specific problem rather than the X11 forwarding itself.

From my brief searching through the issues it seems that Wayland does not want to embrace the X11 forwarding protocols. I can live with the lag for now, but I was wondering if Wayland does not care to improve the X11 forwarding issues and it’s better that I switch to some other desktop environments that support X.org?

I do like the GNOME UI, it would be a shame if I ditch this just because of a slow X11 forwarding. I wish I could ditch Synopsys instead, but I hope you know how it is with licenced tools..

I find that it’s necessary to tell ssh to compress the connection when X11 forwarding.
Try ssh -C but if the app is graphics heavy compress does not work to speed up X11.

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I am using a Synopsys tool on a remote server. While X11 forwarding does work, it is noticeably unresponsive and slow.

Not sure if it’s a viable solution for you (although ssh tunneling should work), but have you considered using Gnome-Remote-Desktop on the remote server with an RDP client?

Not sure if that would help the lag, but I’ve found it’s generally much faster than forwarding specific apps via ssh.

Huh. That worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!

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