XTerm scrolling in xorg-server @1.20.4_0

[Ken Preslan]

I also see the slow down with scrolling in tcl/tk applications.
So, it's not just xterm.  I don't know what those applications
do that iterm2 or others don't.


On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 01:20:59PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hmmm. xorg-server-devel has been on 1.20.x for a long time, and I have been
> running extensively for some time (12 months +) and not seen any issues. But
> then, I don't use xterm.... Now I have tried then yes, I see it too.
> 
> Does this only affect xterm, or have you seen any other issues with the
> server update ? You say "X11 is really painful to use now." but that is not
> my experience, I have to say. All my use cases worked without problems... If
> not, I would not have proposed the recent update to xorg-server.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 02/04/2019 12:28 pm, Michael Dickens wrote:
> > This issue started with the prior "xorg-server-devel" bump a while back. I just moved to iTerm2 for the interim; -very- impressed with that terminal manager! I still need Xterm for some things though ... sigh ... - MLD
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, at 11:37 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> > > > Has anybody else noticed that text scrolling in a xterm is now glacially
> > > > slow since xorg-server was upgraded to @1.20.4_0 over the weekend?
> > > > X11 is really painful to use now.
> > > 
> > > It certainly is. There is something wrong with the screen redrawing in
> > > xterm now, it seems.
> > > 
> > > Ken

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