[linux-audio-user] gnome-terminal performance

[Chris Pickett]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 12:30, Chris Pickett wrote:
> 
>>Florin Andrei wrote:
>>
>>>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2004-July/thread.html#00071
>>>
>>>Am i crazy? Am i the only one who thinks that the current incarnation of
>>>gnome-terminal is slow and a resource hog?
>>
>>No.  I recently tried just about every terminal I could get my hands on, 
>>and settled on using aterm like this:
>>
>>aterm -bg black -fg white +sb -tr -sh 15 -sl 10000 -si -sk -fn 8x13 -ls 
>>-geometry 80x36
> 
> 
> Nice. But it seems focused on "cute" features such as transparent
> background and such.
> 
> http://aterm.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Are you sure it's the fastest, leanest one?

to the point where I would be happy with it forever.  I haven't done any 
real profiling for memory usage, but like I said, gnome-terminal was 
atrocious on my system (750 MHz P3 256 Mb RAM (supposed to be 384 Mb)).

note that i don't like menubars or scrollbars or any of that crap, and 
aterm lets you get rid of them easily (scrollbar is shift+pgup/pgdn or 
shift+up/dn).  usually i just work with 2 or three terminals full 
screen, but occasionally unmaximize them.  if i remember correctly, it's 
like xterm except you can have a transparent background if you want, and 
it's a bit lighter too.

just try it ... you can always get rid of it.

cheers,
chris