I am using the latest stable Freerock Gnome software under Slackware
10.2. I notice that gnome-terminal seems to be the cause of inordinately
high CPU usage: When there is text flashing down a gnome-terminal, all of
a sudden the X server shoots up to using all the CPU cycles available -
making my desktop sluggish.

Is this something that other people have observed? I am asking because I
do not discard the possibility that there is something wrong with
particular setup, not with gnome-terminal/X.

Steven Jones wrote:
> I am using the latest stable Freerock Gnome software under Slackware
> 10.2. I notice that gnome-terminal seems to be the cause of inordinately
> high CPU usage: When there is text flashing down a gnome-terminal, all of
> a sudden the X server shoots up to using all the CPU cycles available -
> making my desktop sluggish.
>
> Is this something that other people have observed? I am asking because I
> do not discard the possibility that there is something wrong with
> particular setup, not with gnome-terminal/X.
>
>

umm... because Gnome has cooties or needs to be deloused maybe, both
Linus Torvalds & Patrick Volkerding wont touch Gnome anymore and have
bad mouthed Gnome in the recent past & removed it from a certain distro
(since 10.2), maybe they are trying to give the Gnome developers a whap
on the head with a cluestick, :P

personally i have not liked gnome since 1.4 was current && using sawfish

Marvin <dev@null.org> trolled:

> umm... because Gnome has cooties or needs to be deloused maybe, both
> Linus Torvalds & Patrick Volkerding wont touch Gnome anymore and have
> bad mouthed Gnome in the recent past & removed it from a certain distro
> (since 10.2), maybe they are trying to give the Gnome developers a whap
> on the head with a cluestick, :P

There is no such thing as a "cluestick." And since those who use
the word "clue" are the type of boys who never want to leave high
school, the word is usually no longer used around here.

cordially, as always,

rm