Bug#236165: lots of output on/moving transparent gnome-terminal is slow
Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.4.2-6
Severity: normal
When gnome-terminal has a transparent background and there's an image in the
background (I run xplanet on the root window), then moving the window around is
very slow. Letting my window manager slide the gnome-terminal window smoothly
(with fvwm's AnimatedMove command) from one side of the desktop to the other
takes several seconds, badly affecting overall system performance while doing
so. The same behavior occurs when there's a program running inside of
gnome-terminal that generates lots of output very fast.
This behavior only occurs after running gnome-terminal for several minutes.
Setting the background to a solid color, and then back to transparent sometimes
solves the problem for several more minutes, but sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes the problem goes away by itself, but sooner or later it comes back
again.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-thomer
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.4.0-5 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.4.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 The Audiofile Library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.4.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.4.3-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.29-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-16 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.4.0.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt1 1.1.12-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 2.0.1-6 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.4.0-4 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.4.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.4.0.1-6 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.4.1-4.1 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-common 2.4.1-4.1 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls7 0.8.12-5 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0-3 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii liborbit2 1:2.8.3-2 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.5-2.1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0-3 X Window System Session Management
ii libstartup-notification0 0.5-4 library for program launch feedbac
ii libtasn1-0 0.1.2-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libvte4 1:0.11.10-4 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-3 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxft2 2.1.2-5 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxml2 2.6.6-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-5 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-5 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii xlibs 4.3.0-3 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime
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