Bug 31830

Summary:	Gnome-terminal slow
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Leitch (RETIRED) <port001>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ian Leitch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-23 09:04:20 UTC

There have been quite a few reports on the forums of gnome-terminal running at a
snails pace since an upgrade to 2.4. I found that if I set my background to a
solid colour while gnome-terminal is using transparency it slows right down and
constantly uses 60-80% CPU. Using a gradient is fine. Nautilus draws my desktop. 

Can anyone confirm this?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-23 09:35:45 UTC

I have noticed this as well. I was wondering why there was such a delay when
marking some text. Removing transparency resolved this issue.

Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-26 12:16:36 UTC

yep weirdish problem.. 

anyone care to look into this?

Comment 3 Yi Quang (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-24 23:17:47 UTC

Can't reproduce here...The steps I took were changing background to transparent and then changing it back to solid...mem/cpu usage stayed the same. gnome-terminal-2.4.2

Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-26 08:27:58 UTC

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123903

Comment 5 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-20 07:51:54 UTC

The issue here, as you can see in the upstream report, has to do with the vte package.

A new revision, vte-0.11.10-r1, is in the tree, including a patch from Gnome's CVS repository to correct this problem. Please test. :)

Thank you for your report.