On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:40:57AM -0400, F. Heitkamp wrote: > > I had been using Gnome 2.6 and just a day ago I got Gnome 2.8 installed > and running. I compiled and installed both from sources. One thing that > bothers me is that when I have a gnome terminal open and am compiling a > large program or doing a backup, all the other gnome terminals slow to a > crawl. This is especially annoying when reading news or email. When the > compile or backup is going, those terminals are continuously scrolling the > output of gcc or tar v. Does anyone know a solution? I've noticed if I > do the tar or compile in an X term gnome terminal runs OK (which happens > to be one solution, but I wondered if there is one with regards to gnome > terminal.) Not a solution, but a workaround: tell GNOME to use aterm or rxvt instead of gnome-terminal. Startup time, memory usage and scrolling performance are all drastically improved by this step. -dsr- _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
