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pbd9 n00b
Joined: 28 Feb 2019 Posts: 2
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:37 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] i3 and urxvt - Delay when opening new terminals |
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Hey, I am a new Gentoo user. I am using i3 wm with urxvt terminal emulator. When I open a new terminal in i3 using alt+enter, there is a significant delay before the new terminal appears.
In my .Xresources file, I am setting the font using xft:
Code: | URxvt*font: xft:liberation mono:size=25 |
When I remove this line and set the font using XLFD:
Code: | URxvt.font: -*-liberation mono-*-r-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* |
The delay disappears and new terminals open very quickly.
The letters on my screen appear jagged (no anti aliasing) when I set the font using XLFD. They appear smooth when I set the font using xft (yes anti aliasing). When I tried using kitty as my terminal emulator, I ran into the exact same delay problem when opening new terminals, but I did not try to fix it. I would like to find out how to get rid of the delay.
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Makersmarx n00b
Joined: 16 Feb 2019 Posts: 57 Location: Costa Rica
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have any blur or transparency going on? If so I assume you are using a compositor? Your XFT font setting appears correct, for reference mine is below and I have no issues. Also after any changes remember to xrdb ~/.Xresources which I am sure you know already.
***My Example
!Inconsolata
URxvt.font: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.letterSpace: -1 _________________ Pura Vida |
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The Main Man Veteran
Joined: 27 Nov 2014 Posts: 1164 Location: /run/user/1000
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Could be some USE flags not enabled. |
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pbd9 n00b
Joined: 28 Feb 2019 Posts: 2
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Do you have any blur or transparency going on? If so I assume you are using a compositor? Your XFT font setting appears correct, for reference mine is below and I have no issues. Also after any changes remember to xrdb ~/.Xresources which I am sure you know already.
***My Example
!Inconsolata
URxvt.font: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Inconsolata-14
URxvt.letterSpace: -1 |
I have not set up a compositor yet, I plan to do that next. Do you think using a compositor help the issue?
Quote: | Could be some USE flags not enabled.
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These are my USE flags for urxvt -
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- - 256-color : Enable 256 color support
- - alt-font-width : Calculate the font width using a different method
- - blink : Enable blinking text
- - buffer-on-clear : Store visible output to history buffer when clearing the
screen with ctrl-l. Read
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129302
- - fading-colors : Enable colors fading when off focus
+ + focused-urgency : Enable the urgent flag when a terminal window is focused
+ + font-styles : Enable support for bold and italic fonts
- - iso14755 : Enable ISO-14755 support
+ + mousewheel : Enable scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 and 5
+ + perl : Enable perl script support. You can still disable this at
runtime with -pe ""
- - pixbuf : Enable transparency support using gtk's pixbuf
- - secondary-wheel : Support for wheel scrolling on secondary screens (like mutt).
Read http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2011q4/00
1491.html
+ + startup-notification : Enable application startup event feedback mechanism
- - unicode3 : Use 21 instead of 16 bits to represent unicode characters
+ + vanilla : Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour; DO
NOT USE THIS ON A GLOBAL SCALE as the severity of the meaning
changes drastically
- - wcwidth : Enable wide char width support
+ + xft : Build with support for XFT font renderer (x11-libs/libXft) |
I just switched to using the urxvt daemon and that appears to get rid of the delay. If I can't figure out anything else in the next day then I guess I'll move on. |
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