Gnome-2.2 Terminal *really* slow / weird since upgrading from Gnome-1.4

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello Joe,

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 00:44, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2003, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > Since I upgraded to Gnome-1.4 this week, I've noticed that the output
> > and general "feel" of my gnometerminal has been sluggish and almost
> > appears to hang at times.
> >
> > For instance, if I repeatedly hit the return key, for the initial three
> > hits, the prompt duly moves lower down the screen, but subsequent hits,
> > result in the prompt actually disappearing for half-a-second then
> > reappearing if I pause for a bit.
> >
> > Also, the output from sockstat -4l as well no longer "smoothly" flows up
> > the screen as before. What I get now is a sort of jerky stop-start sort
> > of movement up the screen.
> >
> > Highlighting text for copying-pasting is awkwark as well. In a line of
> > text, if I click from the left and move the cursor over to the end of
> > the line (or say, to the end of a three line paragraph), the highlight
> > doesn't appear unless I hold the left-mousebutton at the end of the
> > desired text for about two seconds, then my text is highlighted. And if
> > it wrong, like capturing a char more than I meant to, then trying to
> > move the end of the highlighted area along just doesn't work anymore. I
> > have to click away, then retry from the beginning.
> >
> > And lastly, using the scrollbar at the (default) right of the terminal
> > is now a blood-curling experience. I could move it right up to the top
> > in one go, and the screen doesn't even change. The original text is
> > still there until I hit the top and then text (again) jerkily makes its
> > way up the screen.
> >
> > Uname info:
> > $ uname -v
> > FreeBSD 4.8-RC #0: Sat Mar 22 12:10:35 GMT 2003
> > root@<snipped>:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAMMER
> >
> > I'm running this on a P111 533 / 384MB RAM.
> >
> > Mind you all other applications (Abiword / Evolution / Gnumeric / Dia)
> > are all fine in terms of mouse interaction.
> >
> > Is there something I could check?
> > Was there a config / optimization switch that I might have missed
> > somehow?
> 
> You might want to rebuild gnometerminal with -DWITH_ZVT to enable the old
> libzvt terminal widget.  It doesn't support anti-aliasing and has broken
> I18N, but it should be much faster.  GNOME 2.4's terminal should be
> better.
> 
So is there some "known issue" with the new gnometerminal or something?
I'm happy to leave things as they are - for two reasons:

1] If there are plans for improvements in Gnome-2.4 (that will be
catering for the current gnometerminal build) then I'd prefer not to
complicate matters (or, do I misunderstand?) for progressing along that
road-map

2] Oddly enough the best performing of the lot (my machines) is the puny
P2 366MHz 128 RAM laptop that I've recently built. Its fine, so I feared
that it might be something in the builds for the others. But they *were*
all built the same way:

Install OS
Install XFree86-4.3.x
Install Gnome-2.2 - all running with defaults - only transparent bg for
gnometerminal is enabled (just as it was when Gnome-1.4 was used)

Are you aware of the lead time for Gnome-2.4?

Regards,

Stacey


> Joe
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stacey
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