Re: Early Gnome-terminal profiling

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

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
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