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X over SSH works for individual apps you launch from the command line. I do this for Calibre on my home server. I have never tried with a desktop. It is simply a config in the SSH config and then an option when launching SSH.

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Good recommendation. I've used this approach before but somehow had the impression that this doesn't work for OpenGL applications. Now that I think about it, I should simply give it a shot.

SSH X11 forwarding won't have access to the GPU. It also tends to perform very poorly in all but fairly low-latency networks.

You may want to activate ssh compression (see ssh -C).

If you're remote it can speed up X forwarding and make the whole application more reactive.

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