Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:31:10 -0600 From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: marcel@xcllnt.net, marcus@marcuscom.com, tparquet@twcny.rr.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome2 terminal will not work right Message-ID: <20030308173110.44e6bf66.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <3E6A21B4.3080307@isi.edu> References: <3E697C54.7060006@twcny.rr.com> <1047102276.75221.269.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3E699C1A.4090104@isi.edu> <20030308075035.GB49814@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E6A21B4.3080307@isi.edu>
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On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:00:36 -0800 Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> wrote: > On 3/7/2003 11:50 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:30:34PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > >> > >>this may be unrelated, but for about ten days or so, I have problems > >>where gnometerminal will stop updating after a while. I can still use > >>the menus, close it, etc. - but all output is suspended. Most of the > >>time, selecting "Reset" from the menu repeatedly will eventually get me > >>back to a working state again. It also seems that pasting multi-line > >>text into a gnometerminal (as opposed to typing or it displaying output) > >>will trigger this frequently. > > > > <AOL>Me too</AOL> > > > > I tend to think it happens more often with maximized windows than > > not and also when long lines are involved. A reset most of the time > > gets me back, but I do occasionally have to kill gnome-terminal > > completely when all the terminals are dead. Unfortunately I don't > > have the time to dig into it, but I'm probably going to switch > > window manager and see if that makes a difference. For some reason > > I'm suspicious about Metacity. Not necessarily because of this... > > I also switched to a TrueType font for gnometerminals (bitstream-vera) > around the same time, so maybe that's a factor, too. > > As for window managers, I use sawfish (and have been, for a long time > before the problem.) > > Also (unrelated?), it seems that X eats up a LOT of CPU with antialiases > TrueType fonts in terminals, compared to good, old lucida-typewriter. "Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: VT_SETMODE VT_PROCESS failed" You could try rebuilding gnometerminal and use the 'WITH_ZVT' option. This is a workaround for some gnometerminal funkyness that was discussed in the freebsd-gnome list. Font functions are lost, but speed, resource usage, and highlighting for copy/paste is improved. Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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