Date: 23 Apr 2003 12:22:39 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnometerminal is a CPU hog - can I cache fonts? Message-ID: <1051114959.410.9.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20030423161606.16CA452E4@netcom1.netcom.com> References: <20030423161606.16CA452E4@netcom1.netcom.com>
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--=-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--
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