[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Exceptionally slow performance of RCP on

[Dilton McGowan II <diltonm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:20:33 +0200, Achim LÃrke wrote:

> We've had a similar problem using Xming/CygwinX and a Fedora 8 Linux
> box. It turns out that some folks have done some sort of "performance
> optimization" in the Xlib which backfired when using Eclipse on
> networked connections.
> 
> One of my colleagues has done a (very time cosuming) investigation of
> this matter and found this solution:
> 
> Build the Xlib from scratch (using configure) and add the --without-xcb
> flag when building.
> Replace your system (shared) Xlib with this library. Hope that this will
> be fixed by the Xlib maintainers in the future.
> 
> This fixed the problem for us. Eclipse using X is now nearly as fast as
> Eclipse using RDP on a Windows terminal server.

I use Eclipse on RHEL 4, Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.04 with x11vnc and over
standard VNC. I've used it on Yellow Dog Linux on a PS3 over VNC.

There should be no need to rebuild any system X libraries.