Thanks Ross - unfortunately the version of xterm I'm running on nevada
b22, doesn't support the -fa flag. Will need to get it updated. JR Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:41 +0000, John Rice wrote:With the ls /usr/bin, xterm seems to outperform gnome-terminal by an order of x2 on my test box [Acer Ferrari 3400 running Gnome 2.12 with Solaris nevada b22, 1 Gig Ram] [I was testing on 80x24 terminal, with matching fonts; GT: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, 10; xterm: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, 12 (changed using xfontsel)]xfontsel will give you core X font names which are not rendered the same way as VTE does (Xft), using xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 12" will use Xft in xterm and thus make performance more comparable. Ross |