Bug 188340 - opening konsole via x11 is very slow
Summary: opening konsole via x11 is very slow
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-08 05:43 UTC by Kurt Neufeld
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-05-23 13:03:32 UTC
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Description Kurt Neufeld 2006-04-08 05:43:35 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Than Ngo 2006-05-23 13:03:32 UTC
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])




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