Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 188340
opening konsole via x11 is very slow
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:30 EST
Description of problem: I use Windows on my laptop as a thin client running an XServer connecting to my linux box. I just upgraded my server from Mandrake 10.1 to FC 5 and the time it takes to open konsole went from about 1 second to over 10. Also, performance in konsole is horrific. You can watch screen updates occur when scrolling a lot of text (like hitting enter on after `ls /lib`). Have to reitterate that I've been running this setup of XP and xserver for many years now and have been happy with the results. The only thing that has changed is my server, Mandrake 10.1 to FC5. xterm has fast performance but takes 10+ seconds to open and has artifacts after hitting enter. How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. start XWin32 on Windows 2. launch konsole via rsh (yeah yeah) 3. time it... Actual results: Dismal performance. Expected results: Not dismal performance.
if you start the KDE applications at the first time, it will take +10s because several kde libraries, plugins will be loaded at this first time. It's normal behavior. On my machines with FC5 starting konsole takes < 1s after kde libraries, plugins have been loaded! To speed up the output on konsole, you should disble font rendering, just start konsole with --noxft and then change the font to "Fixed [Misc]" (Settings->Font->Select->Fixed [Misc])