On 09/05/2016 12:48 AM, Todor Petkov wrote:
is there a way to run a graphical program via ssh/X forward with low
quality, i.e. 16 bit mode/800x600 etc?
Generally, setting a resolution and bit depth are operations that you
apply to a remote display with a root window, such as a standard RDP
session. X11 applications don't have their own root window (and neither
do "rootless" RDP applications), so you don't set bit depth or
resolution for those.
Regardless, you're probably trying to make X11 applications over the
network faster, and the problem there isn't (usually) the bit depth,
it's that X11 applications require *lots* of round-trips with the X11
server, and when there's any significant latency involved, they become
extremely slow. Working around that usually involves VNC or NX (NoMachine).