Slow scrolling in Terminal

[Ray Andrews]

On 12/11/12 06:01 PM, Tyler Durden wrote:
>
> Actually, I notice heavy slowdown only with binary driver. Nouveau 
> worked fine even with the unpatched libcairo. But, I have other issues 
> with nouveau atm, so have to wait until that is solved before trying 
> it again.
>
> If scrolling is slow even with nouveau, then you actually stumbled on 
> some other problem. Hopefully someone else can help you then.
>
> Yeah, linux video drivers are still a mess...
I've had zero luck with installing the nvidia, the installer won't even 
run, it says '/tmp' is not executable, and nothing seems able to fix 
that. I just installed everything that had 'nvidia' in the name, and so 
far nothing is broken, and nouveau works as before. BTW, when I make a 
terminal very small the speed gets better, so it's obviously something 
to do with the acreage of screen being written.  Other terminal progs, 
like gnome-terminal, are just as slow. But gedit, opera, firefox, etc. 
all scroll very fast. Now, what would all terminal programs have in 
common that is different from all other programs?