From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUlT1-0004Up-Kl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:46:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8AFbecf026359; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:37:40 GMT Received: from relay.sgi.com (netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com [192.48.171.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8AFbb8u026351 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:37:40 GMT Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by netops-testserver-4.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46F061B39 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [150.166.8.69]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8AFbXQn002770 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:33 -0700 Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l8AFbXxq078477 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rsanders@localhost) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l8AFbXkJ078421 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:33 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Eterm very very slow Message-ID: <20070910153732.GA78530@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org References: <46E40ED6.4000702@yahoo.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46E40ED6.4000702@yahoo.co.uk> Organization: SGI, Mountain View, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 424be4f7-a3da-4efb-880d-7ff6307d85c3 X-Archives-Hash: 2881530cf84d7ff676e817fd5e62b615 Michel Merinoff, mused, then expounded: > Andrea wrote: > > Hi at all > > I have just finished to install gentoo-amd64 with fluxbox and I have a strange problem with Eterm: it is very very slow, 6 seconds to load! Almost 3 sec to load the window and 3 more to load "name@host ~ $ " in the window. > > > > I have this problem only with eterm, all system are fast and good. > > I unmerged eterm to install aterm, but I prefere the first... > > > > I tried also : > > USE="minimal" emerge eterm > > but the problem persists. > > > > In /etc/make.conf, USE flags are: > > USE="unicode nvidia xvmc -gnome -kde" > > > > How can I resolve? > > Thanks. > > Bye. > > > I can just say, I have the same problem at work, and I switched to > another term. Which is sad. > I had the same problem at one time when I set up utf8 per the instructions one finds at - http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=166984& But I ceased doing that for my login area and eterm is working fine now. But that's the only reason I know of as Eterm doesn't support utf8. Bob - -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list