From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 09:23:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91DE37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BC443FDD for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:23:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5 [24.93.67.52])h3NGL3gw002222; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:21:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com ([66.57.17.158]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:20:12 -0400 Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) h3NGKiaa084486; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:20:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Mike Harding In-Reply-To: <20030423161606.16CA452E4@netcom1.netcom.com> References: <20030423161606.16CA452E4@netcom1.netcom.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-D6smm+NbpOtxoGksA0o3" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1051114959.410.9.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 23 Apr 2003 12:22:39 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-39.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: gnometerminal is a CPU hog - can I cache fonts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:23:11 -0000 --=-D6smm+NbpOtxoGksA0o3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >=20 > - Mike H. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-D6smm+NbpOtxoGksA0o3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+pr3Pb2iPiv4Uz4cRAplqAJoD7OeS6de9366yMh6VDACv2wJirQCgpC9f RDtrY0HiTDoDjr3+C8SonDg= =huwf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-D6smm+NbpOtxoGksA0o3--