Re: [gedit-list] Gedit (2.20.3) becomes very slow when display right margin is enables

["Trond Danielsen" <trond danielsen gmail com>]

2007/11/7, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>:
>
> Il giorno mer, 07/11/2007 alle 15.11 +0100, Trond Danielsen ha scritto:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I just noticed that gedit becomes very slow if I enable "display right
> > margin" in the preferences. Is this a known bug (or undocumented
> > feature)? I could not find anything in bugzilla related to this. FYI I
> > am running F8 on a pretty fast machine (AMD 64 with 4 GB ram), so that
> > should not be a problem. To be sure that "display margin" is the
> > problem I disabled everything else, including the plugins, and the
> > problem remains.
> >
>
> Hi Trond,
>
>         are you using the oblivion color scheme?

Yes I am. I switched to the classic theme, and this make the problem go away.

> That theme uses a alpha
> overlay to have a slightly different color on the right hand side of the
> margin. However we experienced in the past that on some video cards that
> is very slow, probably due to hitting a slow path in the
> cairo/xserver/video driver. Since much time passed since we tried that
> we tried reebling the alpha overlay in 2.20 in the hope that the video
> drivers were fixed... I guess that if that's not true we should roll
> back that change.

I have got a Nvidia graphics board, and am using the nv driver from
xorg. I will try with the propritary driver and see if it makes any
difference.

-- 
Trond Danielsen