Terminal/VTE hanging problem

Bernhard Walle bernhard.walle at gmx.de
Tue Aug 16 22:06:37 CEST 2005


* Benedikt Meurer [16.08.2005 21:09]:
> Bernhard Walle wrote:
>> * Benedikt Meurer [16.08.2005 19:56]:
>>> Bernhard Walle wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found a problem with VTE or Terminal and I want to ask if you can test
>>>> this problem at your system, so that I can write a reasonable bugreport
>>>> to VTE team (or Terminal, but I think Benny is reading this list anyway).
>>>>
>>>> The problem: Outputting a long text without spaces and newlines makes
>>>> Terminal slow in scrolling. To test:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Make sure that you don't have a file test.txt in current directory.
>>>> 2. wget http://www.bwalle.de/temp/test.txt
>>>> 3. cat test.txt
>>>> 4. Try to scroll, using scrollbars or the mouse wheel.
>>>>
>>>> Here, Terminal becomes very slow. I tried this with the default setup of
>>>> Terminal @Home (SuSE 9.3, Athlon XP 2200) and @Work (SuSE 9.3 64 bit)
>>>> and the problem is reproducable at both computers.
>>> Funny. Just today, a co-worker of mine reported the same problem.
>>> Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce it. Works fine here. Which
>>> version of Terminal do you use? The 0.2.4 release or the SVN version?
>>
>> 0.2.4 Release. I can test SVN if you give me the URL, I don't remember it.
> 
> http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/xfce/terminal/trunk/

Same problem.


Regards,
  Bernhard




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