XFCE Terminal resize poor performance

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 07:22 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:42:53AM -0700, David Sharp wrote:
> > > Basically, you need to find out why these operations are falling back to
> > > ExaCheckComposite instead of being accelerated. A start could be to
> > > rebuild the radeon driver with
> > >
> > > #define RADEON_TRACE_FALL 0
> > >
> > > changed to 1 in src/radeon_exa.c and record the resulting fallback
> > > messages in the log file.
> > 
> > You are experiencing this bug:
> > http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2818
> > related:
> > http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2792
> > 
> > as a workaround, I set my Terminal launcher to:
> > env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 Terminal
> > 
> 
> Thanks David, Michel.  I'll track those bugs.

I'm sceptical about your problem being related to them, and even if they
are, it would be good to investigate why it's falling back to software
rendering - it should be possible to fix that.


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