XFCE Terminal resize poor performance

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 04:45:27PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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.

I'll rebuild as you suggested and post results a little later today.

Ray