I've used X forwarding for resource heavy GUI apps, such as Gephi. Due to your average cafe hipster wanting to be a modern trend setter, lots of projects are unfortunately specifically designed and packaged for Ubuntu. I can either sit here for a weekend and get something like Tilemill properly running under Debian, or dump the thing into a throw away Ubuntu virtual machine and X forward that crap over. X forwarding has its uses. -- Rubin rubin@starset.net
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