[lug] Better X Server?

[Jeffrey Siegal]

Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> When I work at home, I run applications from my Linux box at the office,
> and display them on my boxen at home.  I have noticed that when
> displayed on my Apple PowerBook, the apps are much more responsive than
> on my Debian box.
> 
> This has me wondering what I can do to have better X performance on my
> Debian box.  Is there anything I can do to tune it?  Is there another X
> server (commercial is fine, within reason) I can use?

Are you running in the same video mode?