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flyingosprey

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Registered: 2020-05-09

Posts: 8

Why the performance of GUI terminal is much worse than Gnome3?

Repro:

Physical machine: Ubuntu 20 LTS.
Login a DE.
Open either gnome3 terminal or xfce terminal.
Make the window maximized.
Press "a" on keyboard continuously until the cursor reaches the end of line. etc you type a line of "a" chars.

Observed:
On xfce, it takes 10 seconds to fill up a line.
On Gnome3 or gnome-flashback-metacity, it takes only 6 seconds to fill up a line.
xfce is 40% slower.

Why the performance of GUI terminal is much worse than Gnome3?
This problem is more annoying when using xfce VM because generally, VM is slower than physical machine.

Is it possible to improve?

Thanks.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Why the performance of GUI terminal is much worse than Gnome3?

Go to Settings Manager > Keyboard > Behavior and decrease the "Repeat Delay" and increase the "Repeat Speed" to suit.

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peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 156

Re: Why the performance of GUI terminal is much worse than Gnome3?

Well, if you need this speed, use the gnome terminal and that's it, what's the problem? I tried on my pc (fedora 32, xfce 4.14, xfce4-terminal 0.8.10), a line in maximized window (203 characters exactly) takes me 7-8 seconds. If you are able to write faster I take my hat off to you...

Then if you need to fill 8 Gigas with zeros I think the dd command is more suitable than typing in the terminal...