Bug#494933: charmap.app: the range switching is terribly slow

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:57:55PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> The application is not drawn at all, only gray window is shown.

This is very disturbing.  Could you please post the output of `Charmap
--GNU-Debug=dflt' on the console with both backends?

You can switch them with the same command, e.g.

defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend lingnustep-art

will set the default art backend.

> Not every x86_64 machine is necessarily powerful.

Thanks, I didn't know this.  My machine is Pentium 233 MHz, so I assumed
that every amd64 machine is a lot more powerful, no matter what.

In theory it could be an arch-specific bug (there was an ia64 bug in the
past that resembles your problem), but I can reproduce the behaviour you
initially described on i386 with the art backend.