Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:44:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome-2.2 Terminal *really* slow / weird since upgrading from Gnome-1.4 Message-ID: <20030425194252.M82232@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1051312784.67584.13.camel@localhost> References: <1051312784.67584.13.camel@localhost>
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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. Joe > > Regards, > > Stacey > -- > Stacey Roberts > B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science > > Web: www.vickiandstacey.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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