Bug 226171 - Terminal renders background and text very slowly
Summary: Terminal renders background and text very slowly
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Terminal
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-01-31 19:57 UTC by Ed Hill
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-08-27 19:04:09 UTC
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Description Ed Hill 2007-01-31 19:57:13 UTC
Description of problem:
Terminal redraws *very* slowly following upgrade of exo and Terminal.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Terminal 0.2.6-1.fc6
exo 0.3.2-1.fc6.1

How reproducible:
100%


I did an update a couple of days ago and it made new Terminals run
*very* slowly (one can actually watch the individual redraws of 
lines, background, etc.).  I updated exo today and the problem 
persists.  I have no idea why the redraws are so slow.  No other
applications have this problem -- everything else renders at the 
usual speed.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2007-01-31 20:28:37 UTC
Odd. I don't see that at all here. 

Have you logged out and back on since the upgrade to 4.4.0? 
Perhaps some old libraries are still in memory?

I'll try and see if I can find any way to duplicate here. 


Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi 2007-01-31 21:54:34 UTC
Perhaps you are hitting a vte bug?

There is a new vet in updates-testing for fc6, could you try upgrading that?

ie, 

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update vte

Let me know if that makes any difference.

Comment 3 Ed Hill 2007-02-01 18:00:06 UTC
Hi Kevin, I tried the above vte update and unfortunately it made no
difference -- the rendering is still painfully slow.

Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2007-02-02 04:25:52 UTC
I wonder if it could be this, or related to this bug: 
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2818

Is Composite enabled or disabled for you? 
xdpyinfo | grep -i composite
should tell you if it's enabled... 


Comment 5 Kevin Fenzi 2007-04-18 02:50:50 UTC
Hey Ed. Is this problem still happening for you? Any word on Composite? 

Comment 6 Ed Hill 2007-04-18 13:28:00 UTC
Hi Kevin, I'm not seeing this problem on my FC6 x86_64 laptop and I will try
it again on my FC6 i386 laptop tonight to see if it persists there.

Comment 7 Kevin Fenzi 2007-05-06 22:47:46 UTC
ok. Any news on the i386 testing?

Comment 8 Ed Hill 2007-05-09 02:42:30 UTC
I yum update-ed the FC6-i386 laptop and the terribly slow rendering of
Terminal persists.  I have no idea why its happening.  Gnome-terminal
works nicely on the same machine.  And Terminal works nicely on my x86_64 
laptop.

Comment 9 Kevin Fenzi 2007-05-11 19:08:26 UTC
So, it's running 4.4.1 now? With the same issue?

I can't recall if we tried this yet, but: 
can you create a brand new user, logout and login as that user and see if the
problem persists for that user?



Comment 10 Josh Cogliati 2007-06-27 20:45:02 UTC
For what it is worth, I had this same issue in FC6, and upgrading to F7 fixed
the problem.

Comment 11 Kevin Fenzi 2007-06-27 21:38:42 UTC
I sure wish I could figure this one out. ;( 
I was unable to duplicate it on any of my FC6 boxes. ;( 

Anyone have any further ideas and/or a machine where it's currently happening? 


Comment 12 Kevin Fenzi 2007-08-05 19:15:39 UTC
Anyone left who can duplicate this? 

If not, perhaps it should just get closed?

If so, speak up and I can try and track it down some more. 

Comment 13 Kevin Fenzi 2007-08-27 19:04:09 UTC
ok, closing this. Feel free to reopen or file a new bug if someone is able to
reproduce this. 


Comment 14 Ed Hill 2007-08-29 21:23:53 UTC
Thank you for looking into this bug -- I'm unable to reproduce it on any of
my machines since they were upgraded to F7.


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