Slow scrolling in Terminal

[Tyler Durden]

On 12.11.2012 19:29, Ray Andrews wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> Shift+Arrow scrolling in Terminal is painfully slow, maybe one line per
> second.  I've been making a whole lot of changes to my hardware
> recently, and I don't recall the scrolling being that slow previously,
> so maybe this is some hardware issue, or some setting or other somehow
> got changed, but it seems unlikely since all other programs scroll at a
> good speed.  I've tinkered with the preferences for Terminal but nothing
> changes. Anything I can try to speed things up? What is a bit confusing
> is that I recently got all three of my monitors working under the GUI,
> and Terminal scrolls at a good speed on the single head monitor, but
> slow on the dual head.  But, only Terminal is slow on the dual head, so
> I'm not sure if I should blame the video card.
>

If you have Nvidia card and Nvidia's proprietary video driver, then 
probably.

I had the same issue (slow scrolling in terminal and all kinds of other 
types of slowness). Nowadays I patch and rebuild libcairo2 to fix that, 
something to do with buggy gradients.

-- 
Tyler