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Bug 532816 - gnome-terminal terribly slow scrolling at high screen resolutions
gnome-terminal terribly slow scrolling at high screen resolutions
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-12 17:44 UTC by ghost99
Modified: 2014-04-22 16:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description ghost99 2008-05-12 17:44:28 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Scrolling is too slow in comparsion with konsole, or example, at same resolutions.

Steps to reproduce:
0. Set screen resolution 1920x1080
1. Open gnome-terminal at full screen and open any big manual
2. Scroll down
3. Look at cpu usage (100%)


Actual results:
Lags

Expected results:
Good scrolling without lags

Does this happen every time?
Every time

Other information:
GNOME gnome-terminal 2.18.4
Compiled with optimizations -march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 #3 Sun May 11 18:36:16 MSD 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
nvidia_drivers-169.09-r1 installed

scrolling in same conditions in konsole much faster (CPU usage lower than 20%)
Comment 1 ghost99 2008-05-13 10:32:03 UTC 
added:

glib-2.16.3
gnome-terminal-2.22.1

Problem is still present.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2008-06-16 13:15:05 UTC 
Which version of libvte?

-> vte
Comment 3 ghost99 2008-06-16 13:28:38 UTC 
x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 with "opengl -debug -doc -python" use-flags

distributive Gentoo x86
Comment 4 Christian Persch 2008-10-19 23:17:45 UTC 
Do you use a transparent background without a compositing window manager, or a background image?
Comment 5 ghost99 2008-10-22 06:49:37 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Do you use a transparent background without a compositing window manager, or a
> background image?
> 

Yes, i'm using transparent background without compositing window manager enabled. Is it source of this problem?

And again, in konsole it is no problems with it.
Comment 6 Rolf Leggewie 2009-07-15 21:48:31 UTC 
bug 350015, bug 439247, bug 532816 and bug 572210 all look very much like addressing the same issue.
Comment 7 Christian Persch 2014-04-22 16:52:08 UTC 
NOTABUG as per comment 5.