Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 23, 2007 6:48 UTC (Fri) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)
In reply to: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)

May be gnome-terminal does more aggressive "perceptive" optimizations. i.e. it buffers everything until network becomes ready, or until its application calls "read" from the pty. Which xterm does not and so loses, unfortunately.
It could be understood that on slower networks gnome-terminal could be even faster since it has to update its window less frequently than in local case.
Weird, indeed. But anyway, these optimizations do not seem to be a "rocket science" and I think it should not be hard to repeat them in xterm.
Should Dickey wish it :>

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