gnome-terminal 2.5.experiences long pauses on solaris 8

["Timothy Murphy" <tmurphy mailbox co za>]

Hi,

I have been experiencing a problem with gnome-terminal
2.5.x (both 2.5.0 and CVS head after 2.5.1) and vte 0.11.x
 (I have tried CVS head and 0.11.10).  I am running them on
Solaris 8 (sparc) and everything was compiled with
gcc-3.3.2. 

I'm sorry, BTW, that I'm not subscribed but I can't afford
to store the volume of messages in my webmail account.

There are three problems:

1. Involves some kind of pause that the process goes into
after scolling the text area. e.g. if I do an 'ls' command
a couple of times such that the window scrolls twice, I
then try to open a menu e.g. "Terminal" and the menu does
not appear for up to 2 seconds.  

2. There is a huge pause when I attempt to select text -
over 13 seconds.  If I then press a key or attempt to
deselect there is another similar pause.

I have updated to the latest glib 2.3.1, gtk+2.3.1 just in
case and I have tried the latest source releases and CVS
head versions of vte and gnome-terminal. I have updated
Metacity to the CVS head version and got the latest
libwnck, libbonobo and have got ORBit 2.9.1  (haven't tried
older ORBit). Some other problems have been resolved by
thios combination of updates and CVS versions (e.g. window
resizing pauses and pressing backspace caused little boxes
to be printed instead of moving back) but the big menu and
selection pauses are still there.

I hope that this is useful to someone.  Perhaps I will be
able to work out how to get gprof to produce some profiling
information which will indicate the source of the problem
more precisely.

Regards,

Tim
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