Bug#360533: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#360533: xfce4-terminal: scrollback
on long output without newlines is very slow
Yves-Alexis Perez
corsac at corsac.net
Mon Apr 3 06:24:58 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:19 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> if the output of a program is a long list of data that does not
> consist
> of newlines, xfce terminal will be very slow. gnome terminal gets
> around this limitation by limiting the scrollback in terms of bytes,
> rather than line numbers. for example, 1000 lines of scrollback
> would
> be limited to something like 80*1000 = 80,000 bytes of scrollback
> instead of 1000 newlines.
I guess this use case is rather uncommon, but will report it upstream.
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis Perez
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