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Tunneling X via ssh is fine, but the performance drops both with remote desktops and with ssh encryption delays. SSH might help by allowing -C compression on slow paths, but generally it adds noticable latency, often a bigger problem than bandwidth. That is why the local Xvnc outperforms other remote X solutions. Attachmate has something similar that they call the remote server, but VNC is free. With high latency, xterms may work OK but GUI apps may take forever to present a window.
