Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 505215
gnome-terminal display is slow
Last modified: 2010-06-28 08:53:16 EDT
Description of problem: It seems that gnome-terminal has a problem with a lot of changing text on the screen. especially when scrolling man pages or huge text files this comes apparent. the overall speed of the scrolling slows down quite a bit which is very annoying. In rxvt this doesn't happen. In tty2 this doesn't happen. In earlier releases this didn't happen. I asked about this in #fedora and someone suggested it might be graphics acceleration related. I have a i915 graphics adapter with the xorg-drv-intel-2.7.0 driver. glxinfo shows "direct rendering: Yes" if that's important. Also, I already tried disabling kernelmodesetting and changing the accelmethod in xorg.conf to EXA and XAA. The latter even made it worse. On a side note: changing the focus between multiple large/fullscreen windows via alt-tab or the taskbar also seems a bit lagged. Maybe this is related. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.26-1.1.fc11 Steps to reproduce: 1. open gnome-terminal 2. open a longer man page like sudo 3. scroll down Actual results: Every line scrolled appears only after some waiting time which makes scrolling far distances very slow. Expected results: Every scrolled line appears immediately after pressing the button.
is there really no explanation? i'd really like to use fedora11 but i cant work like this :(
Upgrading to xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.8.0-0.3.fc12 seems to have fixed it, or at least diminished it into only being barely noticable
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