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 -- Ken Preslan <k...@preslan.org>