From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: When transparency is turned on in gnome-terminal X cpu utilization should be expected to rise if your dumping a text file to stdout. However, when that window is minimized or rolled, X continues to utilize the exact same ammount of CPU even though its not actually rendering anything to screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.10.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set transparency to a 50% value. 2.Cat a large text file in a gnome-terminal with transparency on. 3.Minimize window (or roll it up). 4.X CPU use stays the same. 5.Turn transparency off. 6.Cat the same file, X CPU use is lower as expected. 7.But when you minimize the window (or roll up) X cpu use appears to decrease Actual Results: X uses CPU when it doesn't seem like it should need to. Is this a bug in X or is gnome-terminal sending X data it doesn't need? Expected Results: X cpu use should go down when there is nothing on the screen for it to render (ie; a minimized windows having text streamed to it) Additional info:
Hi Tripp, This is actually a vte bug (the rendering widget used by gnome-terminal), not a gnome-terminal bug. I'm going to reassign.
Please be sure to file this upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org, because this task is not something Fedora has engineering resources to prioritize.