Bug 804631 - continuous scrolling in one window make other unusable
Summary: continuous scrolling in one window make other unusable
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-19 13:27 UTC by Tomasz Torcz
Modified: 2013-08-01 17:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 17:48:13 UTC
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Description Tomasz Torcz 2012-03-19 13:27:16 UTC
Description of problem:
My workspace consist of two gnome-terminal window. One with multiple tabs as main working space and second window displaying colorized log files. Basically, second window runs "tail /var/log/various,files | ccze -A".
When there is a lot of log activity, second window scrolls most of the time. In such situation text input/output in other windows is delayed a lot. It feels like there is even one second of delay between pressing keys and reaction. For local shell this is unacceptable. Especially that text input/output in *other windows* is affected.

As a workaround I open second tab on log window (so it has 2 tabs). When the scrolling occurs I use mouse to switch to the second, empty tab. This way text input/output is normal in other gnome-terminal windows.

So this behaviour only happens when the scrolling output is actually visible and displayed. Text is not laggy when the scrolling tab is not visible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-3.3.0-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two gnome terminal windows
2. Start some application outputting lots of text like "hexdump /dev/urandom" in one window
3. Try to type/work in second window
  
Actual results:
Text input is laggy

Expected results:
First window should not affect second window.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2012-04-20 01:57:14 UTC
This should be much better with gtk3-3.4.1-1.fc17

Comment 2 Tomasz Torcz 2012-05-02 09:47:56 UTC
Still happens with:
gtk3-3.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64
gnome-terminal-3.4.1.1-1.fc17.x86_64
vte-0.28.2-3.fc17.x86_64

reopening.
BTW, GPU is intel: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller

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