How can I run IntelliJ IDEA on a remote desktop

Question

IntelliJ IDEA 12 on a remove NX desktop is almost unusable. Screen refreshes are painful as you scroll, and simple operations like selecting text is a chore. Is there any way to

Answer 1

I was having the same problems (unusably slow, tearing updates while scrolling etc.) running CLion (based on IntelliJ) from a Linux box over an SSH-tunnel to a Mac running XQuartz X11. Adding the sun.java2d.xrender=true to the idea.properties file.