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WakkaDojo
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 Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: Super slow xfce terminal when composite enabled |
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| Whenever I have composite windows enabled on xfce4, and I run the xfce terminal, everything gets really slow. I don't have this problem with any other applications; firefox, pidgin, xterm, wterm, you name it -- they all get a little slower when I enable composite windows (as expected), but there is a significant lag when the xfce terminal runs. I had trouble finding a solution for this problem on the internet, does anyone here think they can help? |
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desultory
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:24 am Post subject: |
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Merged the above post.
In addition to the discussion in this topic, a bug has been filed with Xfce upstream. |
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ilm
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| IIRC, there's been posts in this thread before about Terminal being slow, not necessarily to do with composite. |
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dodo1122
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| ilm wrote: | | IIRC, there's been posts in this thread before about Terminal being slow, not necessarily to do with composite. |
True, it's horribly slow, even though i don't use composite.
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96140
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disi
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:40 am Post subject: |
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I haven't installed xfce since a while and now I am so amazed about all the new features, without making the desktop as giant as Gnome or KDE  |
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WakkaDojo
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I was on Ubuntu (with gnome) before I recently switched over to gentoo with xfce. I have to say xfce has proven a lot more capable than I thought. It's small and fast, but not nearly as stripped down as I was led to believe.
Anyway, so far as the xfce terminal goes, I just switched to aterm. I would vouch for it over xfce terminal: it is very configurable and super fast. Maybe it's a little more complicated to configure than the xfce terminal, but it's nothing an hour on the internet can't teach you. |
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mueli
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:22 am Post subject: @Gergan Penkov composite patch |
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I've just found the suggested patch of Gergan but I have to say that it didn't help with my slowdown. xfce-terminal is still really slow, especially on switching workspace with an open terminal. Can I support you in any way to find the problem? I couldn't found a bug report on bgo about this topic ... can anyone launch a bug report? (jacobs always marks my reports as duplicates - I think I'm to silly for reporting bugs  )
g, Mueli
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Sry - just found the info that there is already a bug report on xfce. The info about disabling composite solved my problem. In spite of everything a durable solution would be nice ....
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mrgamer
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:12 am Post subject: Re: @Gergan Penkov composite patch |
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| mueli wrote: | | Sry - just found the info that there is already a bug report on xfce. The info about disabling composite solved my problem. In spite of everything a durable solution would be nice .... |
i've read that aswell, problem is... composite extension is required for run compiz/beryl, and that's why this is a very bad solution.
on the bugreport there is a patch for xfce-terminal-0.2.7-svn, that's not included in gentoo distribution as release 0.2.8
ideas on how/if we can include it in the ebuild ? the thing that makes me mad is that xubuntu works flawlessly with xfce 4.4.1 and its old packages
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mueli
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: patch aply |
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Have you already tried to apply the patch to 0.2.8? Perhaps the effort for modifing the patch isn't high. Today I am busy but could you please post the (link to the) patch and I will have a look.
g, mueli
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mueli
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Ok - but this is more or less the same patch as of Gergan Penkov presented here in this thread. I have already ported and applied this patch. I haven't debugged to see if | Code: | | gdk_screen_is_composited(screen) |
really returns true if composite is on but in fact the patch didnt' help for me either.
So we have to find more information on this ....
g, mueli
p.s.: I haven't further investigated because by disabling composite my problem was solved and I do not use compiz/beryl. But that doesn't mean I am not interested in solving the problem. What about the the connection of this bug to vte?
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