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

Personally, I tried changing both options: sun.java2d.noddraw=false and sun.java2d.d3d=true and that made my IDEA much much better!
From this conversation, seems like the problem is quite common, but the solution varies....

Didn't try the plugin suggested by Phyxx yet, though.

Answer 2

Try use idea with 2017.2 ,it had used new Windows 10 UI interface, had solved this problem.

Answer 3

I have this issue. I got this fixed by changing the properties on RDP. No parameter added in idea.properties.Please see the pic.put the configuration like that and then connect to RDP.

Answer 4

This problem has been discussed here. One of the suggestions was to disable double buffering with RepaintManager.currentManager(null).setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false), and set sun.java2d.noddraw=false in the idea.properties file.

To make things easy, I have created a plugin that toggles double buffering. You can get the source code from here, or you can download the compiled JAR from here.

With the plugin installed, go into the Tools menu and select Enable/Disable Double Buffering. You will experience a lot of flickering with double buffering disabled, but the performance over a remote desktop connection is significantly improved.

You may also have some luck setting -Dsun.java2d.xrender=true. See here for details.

Answer 5

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.