From: Lasse P. <hou...@gm...> - 2006-06-14 13:40:52
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> > [slow highlighting] > > > I haven't noticed any problems really, even with my slowest > > > machine, a 1.2GHz Celeron, over VNC, with antialiased text. Is > > > your hardware slower, and have you tried using a bitmap font? > > > > I have a Intel Pentium 3 with 850 Mhz. Currently I am using "Dejavu > > Sans Mono Book 10" (truetype font, very similar to "Bitstream Vera > > Sans"). > > Vera Sans Mono is the one I've been using lately. I just tried Dejavu > and they're so similar I can't even see anything move when I switch > between them. I think they are identical for the most part. Dejavu seems to have more special characters... or so :) > > I don't know how to select a bitmap font in the profile settings. I > > cant really tell which of the fonts are truetype and which are > > bitmap. I know dejavu is truetype. What is a typical bitmap font? > > My favourite bitmap font is Lucida Typewriter at size 10-12 (depending > on the desktop's DPI setting). I chose this one, but the slowish highlighting still was there... > I should also have asked do you have the same problem with > gnome-terminal? In gnome-terminal this highlighting is very quick. I can't switch the font there because my windowmanager has problems with its profile dialog. Could it be related to detecting URIs in the text? (just making wild guesses) ROXTerm is still usable :) -- Lasse Pommerenke GnuPG fingerprint = 33C8 71B4 B66F CEBB EC41 A6C8 3434 EB5A FCF6 B11B |