Terminal/VTE hanging problem

Bernhard Walle bernhard.walle at gmx.de
Wed Aug 17 18:58:26 CEST 2005


* Bernhard Walle [16.08.2005 22:06]:
> * 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.

I also got a report via PM that he has the same problem. (gentoo amd64
with xfce 4.2.2)

Regards,
 Bernhard




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