st: X11 Forwarding and Do-File Editor

[Brad Cable <bscable@ilstu.edu>]

Hi,

We recently purchased a copy of Stata-MP 11 for Solaris and we are 
having some issues with the X11 forwarding's speed.  I have fixed a few 
of the issues as described below, but now I seem to encounter strange 
occurences when forwarding X onto Windows.

At first, the problem was with forwarding itself.  On Linux, this was 
solved with "ssh -XYC" options, and on Windows we had to switch away 
from Xming/PuTTY to Cygwin/X, which is not a very elegant solution, so 
that we could use these options (PuTTY has no -Y equivalent, the key in 
the problem).  Just wanted to share that since nobody else has mentioned 
"-Y" to fix X11 issues, and it took me awhile to discover that worked.

After that, it responded quickly but the Do-File Editor and Data Editor 
both crashed every time they were started.  As found on this mailing 
list, "Edit->Preferences->Data Editor->Disable visual gradients 
(improves performance)" fixed solely the Data Editor.  Currently I have 
not found a solution to fix the Do-File Editor's crashes.

Are there any other X11 performance tips that might help solve this?

Thanks!
-Brad
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