I often ssh to other machines and then run "screen emacs -nw" on the remote machine. When I use the gnome terminal, however, I encounter two major problems. First, the terminal often times goes completely or partially blank and doesn't refresh the screen properly--especially when there is scrolling text. If I clear the screen, the problem goes away for a bit but eventually comes back. Second, on occasion, the gnome-terminal process eats up 100% of my CPU and ties up my box until I kill the process. This often happens after I see lots of refresh problems.
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