On sam, 2009-06-20 at 15:46 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > I have the following problem on my laptop: I have a XFCE terminal and use > it to log on to a remote machine using SSH. Then I start a program on the > remote computer that prints lots of short lines of ordinary text to the > screen (tens of thousands of lines or more very fast). This I do on one of > my four XFCE desktop areas. Then I work on another XFCE desktop for a while. > Sometimes when I switch back to the desktop with the terminal on it, I see > that the remote program in the terminal seems to be taking a break (not > printing any output). > > I log on to the remote machine using a second terminal, and see that the > program is actually not using any CPU at this moment (otherwise it uses > 100%). So it seems to be waiting for something, maybe to be able to print > some more to screen. > > But then the program continues to run only if I resize the XFCE terminal. So > it seems like there is something with the XFCE-terminal that temporarily halts > the running remote program, by not allowing it to print to screen?
I can't really reproduce this. Could you provide a reproducible test case? I don't really know what to do. Something to do is to try with another vte-based terminal like gnome-terminal. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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