[ILUG] RH9 Gnome-terminal

[P at draigBrady.com]

Baldwin_James at emc.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Anyone been able to get gnome-terminal to behave itself in AA mode in Redhat
> 9?
> 
> I have latest gnome-terminal-2.2.1-3.i386.rpm,

Well that's the latest for rh9. Also check you have the lastest vte.
I presume this is fixed in later versions of gnome-terminal?

> when block selecting text, I
> could be waiting up to 2 minutes in order to select it. Gnome-terminal will
> take all available CPU and hang itself, but not the entire host. 
>>From googling, seems like a known issue, but no solid fix when in AA mode.
> Buffer is default 500lines, which equates to about 318kb buffer mem.
> Happens with just one or many g/terms open.
> 
> Host is a PentiumII 350 (ok, still though) with 384meg, single Ide disk.
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
>  1969 root      19   0 13056  12M  2988 S    63.4  3.3  11:26   0
> gnome-terminal
>  1913 root      14  -1 28272  15M   848 S <   6.9  4.1  18:41   0 X

Not a fix to your problem, but I really think scaleable/antialiased
text is not required for fixed width apps:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/fc_fixed.html

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