From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 Description of problem: Screen refresh after exposure events is shamefully slow. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.6.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Stack a couple of windows on top of a complex background: (1) gnome-terminal full of text (2) xterm full of text (3) mozilla displaying something arbitrary. Grab a fourth window and move it over the lot of them. Actual Results: Notice that the gnome-terminal refresh significantly lags the movement of the fourth window -- by up to half of the window width -- and nothing else does. Notice that you can visibly identify multiple exposure events in the uncovered gnome-terminal. Expected Results: Refresh faster than the eye can follow. Additional info:
I think the situation is far worse on fc3t2 with gnome-terminal(0:2.7.3-1).i386... it's quite a hell. Self-scrolling text (cat /some/big/file) in gnome-terminal is also quite a pain... will this ever get better one day ?
Richard, are you using a translucent background? Dams, there was a vte scrolling bug in fc3t2 that has been fixed in Rawhide.
Absolutely not. First, I can't read such things. Second, I realize that would *have* to be slow. I'm even using the same "fixed" font that's default with xterm, hoping to avoid extra work for keen-o rendered fonts.
Performance problems are not a priority for Fedora. Fedora has no resources to work on this. Please complain about vte performance problems at the upstream GNOME project and bugzilla.gnome.org.