camh

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[–] camh@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

The server is in a different country

You really need to have lead with that. I do what you want all the time, but it's to another port of the same switch.

Your problem is basically latency. X11 used to run fine on local 10Mb/s networks and that's no streth these days for WAN connections. What you won't be able to get past though is latency. How chatty is the protocol.

Anyway, I suggest you try xpra - that was on my list to try at one point but I haven't needed to. But it is meant to be for what you want and optimised for that. I wanted it so I could disconnect from the machine and reconnect later to resume, but I found it simpler to just do most things in the terminal and use tmux instead. I've been happy with that for years now.