gnometerminal is a CPU hog - can I cache fonts?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:16, Mike Harding wrote:
> I'm using gnome terminal to do some big builds, like 'build world' or
> similar, and I notice that XFree86 can use up to 35% of the CPU.  WIth
> xterm, this seems to never be more than 3-4%.  I assume that this is
> because of the font rendering.  Is there anything I can do to enable
> font caching?  Does X cache rendered fonts?  I haven't really touched
> the defaults or played with this stuff before, and appreciate any
> help.

This is a problem with the new vte widget.  Apparently, vte-0.11.x is
better, but that's still in development.  You can rebuild gnometerminal
with -DWITH_ZVT, and enable support for the older libzvt widget which is
faster, but doesn't support anti-aliased fonts, and has some I18N
issues.

Joe

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