RE: BUG: gnome terminal horrible performance

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > configure transparent background and it becomes even more slower.
> > Futhermore it does not save the geometry.

Sadly, yes. But at least it takes X geometry specification on startup,
which allows you to set the initial dimension (in chars) and the
position on the screen (pixels). See 'gnome-terminal --help' and 'man X'
for the details.


> I agree, I was very disappointed with gnome-terminal when I installed 2.6.
> After a year or two sabatical with KDE I finally came back to Gnome in 2.6
> and I am pretty disappointed with that terminal. It does not have a tab
> feature which makes managing more than one terminal at a time a little
> cumbersome (who works with one terminal at a time?).

Shift+Ctrl+T creates a new Tab. See the menu for more shortcuts.


Caveat: Haven't had my morning coffee yet...

...guenther


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