On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:19:20PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > 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. > > So why is that RedHat's gnome-terminal is so much slower? Short answer: implementation detail. Long answer: gnome-terminal is more or less a wrapper around a library which implements a terminal emulator widget, adding features (like the ability to change settings without having to recompile the application) which some people find useful. gnome-terminal 2.x can be configured at compile-time to use either libzvt or vte, both of which implement terminal widgets. The GNOME 2 packages in Red Hat Linux use vte, and IIRC the GNOME 2 packages in Mandrake Linux use libzvt. gnome-terminal from GNOME 1.x used libzvt as well, so the speed should be comparable if gnome-terminal 2.x is also built with libzvt, as most of the processor-intensive code is in the widget rather than the shell. There are tradeoffs to using either, but both continue to be developed. HTH, Nalin -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
