Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal I have been using gnome-terminal with transparency enabled for many years on an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ system (technically 2.166 GHz) with a Matrox G400-series video card. In recent months, I started noticing significant lag time while typing in the terminal window. When I press and hold the spacebar, the cursor moves in a very jerky motion across the window. This becomes very frustrating when I am editing files under vim.
This jerky motion goes away if I disable transparency. Surprisingly, performance also improves to a good level if I enable compositing under metacity with the command gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true Note, that I am *not* running compiz. I was surprised to discover that compositing works at all with my video card because it does not support 3D in 24-/32-bit color mode. Enabling compositing markedly improves the performance of gnome-terminal, but has a somewhat negative effect on my ability to smoothly drag windows of other programs around the desktop. Alt+Tab with compositing enabled is very slow. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (988, 'testing'), (499, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii gnome-terminal-data 2.30.2-1 Data files for the GNOME terminal ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-5 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libvte9 1:0.24.3-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii gvfs 1.6.4-2 userspace virtual filesystem - ser ii yelp 2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME gnome-terminal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Mike Hicks <hick0...@tc.umn.edu>
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