On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 16:31 -0400, Will Cohen wrote: > Funny, I learned about passing xterm a command to execute from your > email. :) Well that's good to hear. :) The -e switch works with gnome-terminal too, incidentally. > Remember the our goal is to improve the performance of the Linux > Desktop, not to be correct every single time. True, being correct every single time doesn't hurt either. :) > PS I learned today that gnome actually uses gnome-terminal rather than > xterm. It does, and it definitely could stand some performance improvements. I don't think it's _vastly_ slower than xterm (once it's started), but it does often get in the way. I think it was Warren who mentioned that he has to minimize gnome-terminal when he's doing a noisy compile otherwise it significantly slows down. That's certainly true for me too (although I just toggle to another tab), but I'm not sure if the real problem is with gnome-terminal, pango, or the underlying font system -- or perhaps at layers even lower than that, like really bad or non-existent Render support in the video driver. Cheers, Jason.
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