x-forwarding problem - no window contents

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Simon Timms wrote:

> I have tried using several different window managers and different 
> users
> in the hopes it was some sort of setting I had accidentally triggered
> but to no avail.  Has anybody seen this before and how do I fix it?
> I assume that it is a problem on the desktop machine since forwarding
> does work between the server and other boxes.

Does compression (-C) on ssh have any effect?  I've noticed some 
programs run verrrrry slowwwww without compression (and even then, 
still run with a bit of lag...like Pan... :-(

Does it work better if you connect to a ssh-forwarded VNC session?

Anything showing up in logs for ssh?