GNOME's VTE Seeing Improvements For Faster Terminal Performance

[tildearrow]

I remember having to mod VTE because it wouldn't render at 60 FPS by default...

[reba]

I would love an update article like those or an addendum covering new terminal emulators too plus rerun benchmarks in vte ones and others.

Alacritty, Kitty, eDEX-UI, Simple Terminal, Tilda, ROXTerm, Eterm, LXTerminal, xfce4-terminal, Terminology, Deepin Terminal, LilyTerm, Sakura, Extraterm, DomTerm, Tabby, Rio Terminal, Zutty... and the one in Arcan.

... and foot

[timofonic]

... and foot

I agree!

[timofonic]

https://www.gresearch.com/blog/article/g-research-the-terminal-escapes/

[M@GOid]

I'm not a heavy user of terminals, so I have to ask: where exactly you guys notice low performance on a terminal emulator? I only saw it once, running CMatrix in Konsole on a netbook with a crappy AMD C50 cpu.

[You-]

I'm not a heavy user of terminals, so I have to ask: where exactly you guys notice low performance on a terminal emulator? I only saw it once, running CMatrix in Konsole on a netbook with a crappy AMD C50 cpu.

i suspect a lot of it is output when building large projects and not for mere mortals who take 10 seconds to type dnf update.

[elduderino]

I'm not a heavy user of terminals, so I have to ask: where exactly you guys notice low performance on a terminal emulator? I only saw it once, running CMatrix in Konsole on a netbook with a crappy AMD C50 cpu.

If you want to know what is going on with your system and you run `top` or some variant of it, and top+terminal+compositor drown your system with overhead you can't see what was going on to begin with.

[ssokolow]

If this were still the GTK+ 2.x era, I'd be interested.

As-is, with the direction the GNOME HIG is pushing even some GTK primitives used in non-GNOME desktops and applications (eg. the unwanted and drop-shadows that only the GTK 3 version of the Breeze theme gives to context menus in irreplaceable applications like Inkscape, and which loves to play "I upgraded GTK. How the **** do I match and erase it in gtk.css now?" hide-and-seek, which turn into giant black borders whenever I full-screen a video on one monitor and KWin suspends compositing for the whole desktop), I see "Announcement: improvement to GTK technology" as a synonym for "Breaking News: Turd has been polished more".