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keyboss

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Registered: 2016-05-18

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] gnome-terminal (and others) is laggy for input

Just recently my terminal, gnome-terminal, became unbearably slow for typing input. You can tap the "e" key, for example, and witness noticeable lag from typing to actual input displayed in the terminal. This is not milliseconds -- it is seconds.

I note that konsole is also affected as I installed it to see. URXVT and suckless.org's st are not affected. Does this have to do with the locale in some way? I've done some digging and saw others had similar issues with at least gnome-terminal, but they were resolved by setting UTF-8 in the locale.conf.

Here's mine:

$ cat /etc/locale.conf 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

It does not help any. I only added the LC_CTYPE recently, but my config was already UTF-8. Is there any way to fix this? It's truly unusable.

Last edited by keyboss (2016-06-13 01:53:11)

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 639

Re: [SOLVED] gnome-terminal (and others) is laggy for input

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213533 .  This problem seems to affect a lot of users and it also affects lots of programs.

keyboss

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Registered: 2016-05-18

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] gnome-terminal (and others) is laggy for input

Yes, thank you. This is exactly my issue and I've resorted to the LTS kernel workaround as well.