looks like the double buffering is not enabled or functioning and xterm is writing directly into the display buffer rather than into the back buffer and blitting it.
> On Apr 2, 2019, at 04:28, Michael Dickens <michae...@macports.org> 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