On 04/26 11:17, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On 04/25/2017 10:38 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> > On 04/25 07:38, Floyd Anderson wrote:
> > > On Di, 25 Apr 17:47:22 +0200
> > > tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > currently I am using urxvt as my standard terminal
> > > > application, which is FAST and reliable.
> > > > But it only emulates 24bit colors if instructed so.
> > > > It maps 24bit rgb to 256 color using a fast but not
> > > > total correct formula to to do (which is no critism -
> > > > its just the way ot is implemented).
> > > >
> > > > I googled qyite a bit to find 24color terminal
> > > > emulators and the one, which came closer to
> > > > what I want is sakure.
> > > > But comparing the speed of sakura with urxvt
> > > > (catting a long log file twice while measureing the time
> > > > of the second cat) it shows that sakura needs
> > > > six times more time than urxvt.
> > > >
> > > > Combining this with the compile sessions, which
> > > > are one of the core features of Gentoo ;)))...
> > > >
> > > > What I want is the "fastest" possible (...)
> > > > terminal emulator supporting true color (24bit).
> > > > I dont need fancy configuring options (two exception:
> > > > TABS! and lightweighted) and I dont want KDE stuff (or
> > > > any other bloated thing with thousands of dependencies...)
> > > > I am simply using openbox.
> > > >
> > > > What are your experiences?
> > > >
> > > > Any hint is heartly welcome! Thanks !
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Meino
> > > >
> > > > PS: The terminal emulator dont need to be part
> > > > of Gentoo necessarily...if it is compilable
> > > > by a human being withoyt super powers... ;)
> > > >
> > > I am using rxvt-unicode also as my main terminal emulator. Its true colour
> > > emulation bothers me also but just only a little bit.
> > >
> > > As a second one, xfce4-terminal runs here from time to time (seldom). A
> > > quick time/cat test with a gcc-5.4.0 log file (approximately 25 MiB) shows
> > > surprisingly that xfce4-terminal runs six time faster than rxvt-unicode.
> > > Maybe one reason is that urxvt looks for URLs and email addresses to
> > > colourising them.
> > >
> > > Maybe you can get a suggestion from [1].
> > >
> > >
> > > References:
> > > [1] <https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > floyd
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi Floyd,
> >
> > thanks for the informations! :)
> >
> > A few minutes ago I emerged xfce4-terminal and tried the
> > cat-time-test of yesterday: 29 secondes with xfce-terminal
> > and 5 seconds with urxvt. Hmmmm...
> >
> > You have got the reversed results compared with mine...
> >
> > What the heck slows down the output of the terminals on my
> > Gentoo and only let urxvt shine?
>
> Possibly your use flags and/or openbox (if not using a GL compositor). Try
> enabling all GL related flags for the terminal emulator and it's
> dependencies and use a GL compositor like kwin or compiz. Modern graphics
> cards are designed with modern software in mind. Many don't even have a 2D
> engine anymore.
>
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> >
> > Cheers
> > Meino
> >
> > PS: I found XVilka before. That's why I asked for some experiences
> > of other users.... :)
> >
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> --
>
> Fernando Rodriguez
>
Hi Fernando,
thanks for the informations! :)
I am not using compiz or such....
Openbox is installed as follows:
[I] x11-wm/openbox
Available versions: (3) 3.5.2-r1 (~)3.6 3.6.1 **9999
{branding debug imlib nls session startup-notification static-libs svg
xdg PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"}
Installed versions: 3.6.1(3)(11:01:40 AM 02/18/2017)(nls session
-branding -debug -imlib -startup-notification -static-libs -svg -xdg
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7")
Homepage: http://openbox.org/
Description: A standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
My USE_FLAGS (make.conf) are:
USE="nvidia X lua sdl mp3 flac jack alsa gtk cairo sndfile qt3support kpathsea
gif tga jpeg png jpeg2k mad dvb dvdr encode lzo bzip2 ogg sox v4l v4l2 vorbis
x264 x265 zsh-completion -hal -lirc"
Wpuld you suggest to change a flag?
Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
Cheers
Meino
