[PLUG] digital photo editing on linux

[Wil Cooley]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:49 -0800, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On 3/1/06, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> wrote:
> > I have a similar machine, and I was about to complain about poor 2D
> > performance, but I discovered something else.  When I use less to page
> > backwards through a file, the character redraw is very slow.  My discovery
> > is that the slowness is apparently due to gnome terminal(version 2.7.3).
> > When I page backwards using xterm, the redraw is very fast.
> 
> This is a known consequence of running a gnome-terminal, there are at
> least a couple projects (Darcs, is one, iirc.) that recommend not
> using gnome terminals to do the compilation because it puts such a
> tight bottleneck on the output, and can *greatly* increase the time
> needed to build the project.

I'm a fan of rxvt still; rxvt-unicode for Unicode output.  GNOME 2.14,
however, is supposed to have a much faster gnome-terminal:

http://www.gnome.org/%7Edavyd/gnome-2-14/

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd
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