Slow resizing of Terminal?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Tue, 13 May 2008 00:52:00 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2008 08:56:25 +0200 Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have just reinstalled my laptop and installed XFCE there as well.  
> > But I have a problem on my laptop that I don't have on my
> > workstation computer. When I resize Terminal, it takes a couple of
> > sec. Resizing the windows of other application works as it should but
> > not Terminal. What am I missing?
> 
> Either disable the composite extension in your xorg.conf, or set the
> env var XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS to 1 before running Terminal.
> 
> I have a wrapper script for Terminal that sets the var, and then a line
> in my ~/.bash_profile to unset it so apps launched from Terminal aren't
> ARGB-window-deprived ^_~.
> 
> If you're not using xfwm4's compositor, then it's probably easier to
> just disable composite entirely.

Yes, I had copied my old xorg.conf file and for some reason composite was enabled... (A)
Disabling it helped... :)
 
BTJ