Omair-Inam, could you try recent 8.1.1 bugfix release (it contains some remote-desktop oriented performance fixes) and report if IDEA still work slowly?

That's great!

Unfortunately, my Trial license has expired so I won't be able to test the latest release :(

Should this bug then be closed until otherwise noted ?

I'm having the same problem with my Maia EAP #10781. It's basically unusable over remote desktop.

I've got a screenshot, if that'll help, but I'm not allowed to upload it.

I've tried using a mapped network drive and using intellij on my home computer, but it intellij was extremely slow to boot up. I'd imagine that this was caused by trying to index files across a VPN connection.

Can anyone suggest another work around, aside from moving my company's code to my home machine which is a definite no-no?

I'm using IDEA over RDP over encrypted VPN with no issues. Tune your RDP settings for maximum speed.

I have done so but I'm still experiencing the same problems. I don't think it's a speed issue, I can use many other applications without a problem (including eclipse).

90.94 build works fine for me with remote desktop (unlike previous builds)
Thanks

I don't think this is really fixed - see this thread: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5284065#5284065

Can someone reopen this bug, or should I file a new one? Thanks...

I have a solution that makes performance over remote desktop much better. Run IntelliJ (or PhpStorm, etc) with the following command line parameter:

-J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=false

JetBrains – can you guys make this the defaullt? According to this thread – http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131233 – setting it true was mainly a workaround for older versions of java.

I also have same problem with WebStorm 103.98.
It draw window extremely slow (i see as it draws line by line), with RDP on Windows 7.

I changed the sun.java2d.noddraw=true in my idea.properties file to false, and like Russell I get a massive improvement (from completely unusable to "understandably slow"). IDEA is still not as fast as "native apps" but I don't know how much of that is due to Swing vs native drawing. I'm on 10.0.2 and Win7. I'm mostly making this post since for a long time I didn't think Russell's solution worked because I just commented out the line. Commenting the line didn't work; it explicitly had to be in the idea.properties file with the value false.

IDEA 9 is a little pokey but IDEA 10 is much slower. Some of the things I think may be causing it to be slower are:

• tooltips on editor tabs
  
• transparency on editor scrollbar
  
• opacity animation of scrollbar when scrolling
  

Yeah... this pretty much kills me on NX. all typing is interrupted as tooltips fade their way in and out, one frame at a time coming over the wire. Tooltips are great, but I would even be thankful just to turn them OFF when I'm working remotely. It's like road rage, but I'm sitting at my desk. (And yes, I've tried all the tricks. I troll Jetbrains for solutions a couple of times per year)

Yes, I'm sorry to say it because I like Idea, but it's really abysmal usability through RDP/NX. I end up avoiding Idea entirely in many cases, and you will improve my swears per minute statistic considerably if you do something about this.

Some of the behavior that's the most frustrating through RDP/NX can be reduced through configuration – which is nice, but it's a real drag to have to spend the time to figure out what's holding you back and tune it yourself, and even then it doesn't seem to be able to be changed enough to give you all the most important IDE benefits and perform reasonably at the same time.

Perhaps a configuration pre-tuned for best RDP/NX performance for settings that dramatically impact it plus obvious UI fanciness simplifications forced when an RDP or NX context is being used. I like how the more recent versions of Idea detect OS settings and give the user a message to notify them of settings that were observed that will cause Idea to perform less than optimally. Perhaps the forced performant RD/NX settings could be accompanied with a similar message that says "Would you like some of your normal settings to be overridden to improve your experience on this remote environment?", and show the settings that will be temporarily changed and how they were changed to inform the user as well.