Re: gnome terminal

[dsr tao merseine nu]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:40:57AM -0400, F. Heitkamp wrote:
> 
> I had been using Gnome 2.6 and just a day ago I got Gnome 2.8 installed 
> and running.  I compiled and installed both from sources.  One thing that 
> bothers me is that when I have a gnome terminal open and am compiling a 
> large program or doing a backup, all the other gnome terminals slow to a 
> crawl.  This is especially annoying when reading news or email. When the 
> compile or backup is going, those terminals are continuously scrolling the 
> output of gcc or tar v.  Does anyone know a solution?  I've noticed if I 
> do the tar or compile in an X term gnome terminal runs OK (which happens 
> to be one solution, but I wondered if there is one with regards to gnome 
> terminal.)

Not a solution, but a workaround: tell GNOME to use aterm or
rxvt instead of gnome-terminal. Startup time, memory usage and
scrolling performance are all drastically improved by this step.

-dsr-