On 7 Nov 2002, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: >Date: 07 Nov 2002 20:19:20 +0100 >From: Jean Francois Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Why is gnome-teminal so slow? > >Gnome-terminal like shipped in RedHat 8.0 is very, very, very slow. >The funny thing is that Mandrake 9 cames with exactly the same version >and it is about ten times faster (not an exaggeration). As fast as the >gnome-terminal in Redhat 7.x or the standard xterm. > >I thought it could be related to fonts or antialisaing so I tried >different fonts, turning off antialiasing and kerning but to no avail. Did you completely quit gnome-terminal after disabling AA, and then restart it? If not, then you wouldn't see any change. >So why is that RedHat's gnome-terminal is so much slower? That would require someone to test both, and profile them to see why. It also assumes they're not identical, and just different configurations. Does Mandrake 9 use Xft2/fontconfig and Xft'd GNOME/KDE? If not, then that very well could be your answer there. AA fonts are not accelerated. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
