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gnome-terminal package

gnome-terminal mouse performance slow on feisty

Bug #78343 reported by Sam Brightman
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GNOME Terminal
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Medium
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I'm pretty sure that this started with Feisty, but only went through Edgy to upgrade, so it could have been there. gnome-terminal mouse select for copying text is now very slow - it takes about a second (or more) to highlight the text when you drag over contents with the mouse. I believe that the performance has got generally worse - switching to the terminal seems slower (black before redraw) than before as well.

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chantra (chantra) wrote :

Hi,

This is not happening on my feisty box with gnome-terminal 2.16.1-0ubuntu1 installed.
Could you please indicate which ubuntu distribution this happens on as well as the gnome-terminal release
(dpkg -l gnome-terminal)
cheers

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

gnome-terminal is 2.16.1-0ubuntu1, this is feisty updated as of about Friday. The mouse is a PS/2 Logitech MouseMan+. uname -a gives "Linux wildthing 2.6.20-3-386 #2 Tue Dec 26 06:50:47 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux"

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Do you use compiz or composite or some fancy graphical effect?

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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

Haven't turned anything special on myself, and just used apt to upgrade from Edgy. Also not seeing anything fancy: it's an old computer that wouldn't cope with it, but this didn't used to happen.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Marking unconfirmed, the package didn't change for some time, maybe somebody else get that problem and is wanting to work on it

Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

it might just be general slowness that i haven't noticed before - i've seen that it doesn't happen as badly with smaller terminal windows, and is particularly acute with a maximised window. i still feel that it really should be faster though.

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Alan Tam (at) wrote :

I also see the same problem, in fact even more problems, and in fact with both gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal. All these happened since I upgraded to Herd 3, and still persists till now.

General slowness with gnome-terminal is one thing. Sometimes typing a character to the shell takes a second to appear. Selecting with mouse is also very slow, especially when it involves scrolling. Scrolling by Shift-Up/Down is also very slow.

Sometimes, I see "broken" characters (yes, part of the character is missing) inside the terminal, but when I select the text, the characters become alright. But they appear broken again when I deselect.

I am using IBM T40 with P4M 1.4G and 768MB RAM.

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Thomas Schwinge (tschwinge) wrote :

This should be fixed with a recent upload.

See also <https://launchpad.net/bugs/85575>.

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Alan Tam (at) wrote :

I can confirm that both gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal works fine for me now.

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Sam Brightman (sambrightman) wrote :

this bug has been both confirmed and fixed, why is it still unconfirmed?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

closing the bug then

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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