Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

[Ben Scott]

On 9/14/07, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> I connected to the work LAN from home today using
> OpenVPN and asked Thunderbird (as an X client ...

  The X wire protocol is very sensitive to high-latency links.  Just
about any Internet connection is going to be considered
"high-latency".  It's not a Thunderbird thing, it's an X thing.  (Some
X programs are worse than others due to the nature of their commands
or the complexity of their GUI, but it's fundamentally an X issue.)

  Use a protocol more suited to high-latency links.  VNC is a common
choice for X stuff.  I've also seen X protocol extensions/variants/etc
intended to address this issue, but I've never tried them.  FreeNX is
one such.

-- Ben