request for Bug Fix, Gnome Terminal / transparency effect

[Aaron Bennett]

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Hello,

I've noticed that if Gnome Terminal has "transparency" turned on, and
there is no desktop pattern, the system slows to an absolute crawl.
Top shows the gnome-terminal is taking 90% of the CPU and load average
jumps from 0.1 to around 2.0.

This seems like a clear bug in Gnome Terminal; however the only bug
report I found
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107976) on this
issue was marked "NOTABUG" by Warren Togami.  I understand his point
that once x.org supports true alpha-channel transparency, this will be
easier to fix, but, I disagree strongly with his assesment of the
issue as "NOTABUG."

I think this is pretty serious and should be fixed; my suggestion is
for Gnome Terminal to check for a desktop wallpaper and if there is
not one to refuse to become transparent.

Is there a way to re-open this bug?  Is Havoc Pennington still the
maintainer of Gnome Terminal?

Thanks for reading,

Aaron Bennett


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Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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