request for Bug Fix, Gnome Terminal / transparency effect

[Aaron Bennett]

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Hello,

I've noticed that if Gnome Terminal has "transparency" turned on, and
there is no desktop pattern, the system slows to an absolute crawl.
Top shows the gnome-terminal is taking 90% of the CPU and load average
jumps from 0.1 to around 2.0.

This seems like a clear bug in Gnome Terminal; however the only bug
report I found
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107976) on this
issue was marked "NOTABUG" by Warren Togami.  I understand his point
that once x.org supports true alpha-channel transparency, this will be
easier to fix, but, I disagree strongly with his assesment of the
issue as "NOTABUG."

I think this is pretty serious and should be fixed; my suggestion is
for Gnome Terminal to check for a desktop wallpaper and if there is
not one to refuse to become transparent.

Is there a way to re-open this bug?  Is Havoc Pennington still the
maintainer of Gnome Terminal?

Thanks for reading,

Aaron Bennett


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Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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[Havoc Pennington]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:57, Aaron Bennett wrote:
>  Is there a way to re-open this bug?  Is Havoc Pennington still the
>  maintainer of Gnome Terminal? 
This bug should only be open upstream on bugzilla.gnome.org. The
functionality here is in vte, rather than gnome-terminal. gnome-terminal
is just the menubar and prefs dialog. Mariano is the main maintainer
now, but he isn't responsible for vte.

A fix is welcome here, but anything involving bad transparency hacks
used purely for eye candy is going to be low in the priority queue for
most of the developers ;-) That doesn't stop someone who finds it high
priority from hacking on a fix, though.

Havoc

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:49:29PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  A fix is welcome here, but anything involving bad transparency hacks
>  used purely for eye candy is going to be low in the priority queue for
>  most of the developers ;-) That doesn't stop someone who finds it high
>  priority from hacking on a fix, though. 
It would also be nice to know if the load is mostly X server or gnome client
application.

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hi,

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 19:57, Aaron Bennett wrote:
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>  Hello,
>  
>  I've noticed that if Gnome Terminal has "transparency" turned on, and
>  there is no desktop pattern, the system slows to an absolute crawl. 
	What do you mean by "no desktop pattern". A solid color background or
... ? A good way to explain exactly what you mean is to post the output
of "gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/background"

>  Top shows the gnome-terminal is taking 90% of the CPU and load
> average
>  jumps from 0.1 to around 2.0. 
	Something sounds wrong there, alright.

	You're probably better logging this bug upstream in bugzilla.gnome.org,
as there would unlikely be anything specific to the Red Hat packages
which would cause this problem.

Cheers,
Mark.