Re: Speed improvement of gnome-terminal

[Krishnan R <rkrishnan novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 13:14 -0400, Tim Gerla wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 18:33 +0530, Geetha wrote:
> > There are concerns about the gnome-terminal speed. The display and
> > refresh are a bit slow. 
> > The gnome-terminal uses libvte backend.
> > I rebuilt the gnome-terminal with libzvt(2.0.1-54.2) backend but did not
> > find a significant speed improvement (thought it was faster). Further
> > zvt does not provide i18n support. I downloaded the latest cvs zvt and
> > rebuilt with that. But that seemed slower than vte.
> > To improve the gnome-terminal speed there might be some optimizations
> > which could be made on the backend libvte. Any other thoughts on this?
> > Do drop in any suggestions for improving gnome-terminal speed... 
> >
>
> I noticed recently that having the "Assistive Technology Support" turned
> on really slows gnome-terminal/vte down to a crawl. If you have that
> turned on, try turning it off and see if that makes a difference.
This could help.  However, I will have to re-login whenever I change this.

> Another somewhat common problem seems to be transparency turned on at
> 100% opacity...that one caught me a while back and never fooled me
> again. :)
I tried these and did not get much help.    The difference it made when doing a 'time ls /dev' is very 
negligible.   

-Krishnan