Scrolling Speed Bad

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 22:36 -0600, Karl Pearson wrote:
> Is there something I can do to speed up the scrolling of windows.
> Specifically, when I'm running a script in xterm, the scrolling is very slow.
> It's even slower in Firefox. If I use the mouse wheel to scroll, it's very
> annoying to the point that the mouse pointer is lost and I have no control
> until the scrolling stops. In xterm, it's just as bad, but I've not tested the
> mouse wheel scrolling. If I click on the border thing (hey, I've lost my mind
> and can't remember what it's called) it scrolls fast as a jump.
> 
> Any ideas?

This sounds like an X rendering issue.  Which X driver are you using?

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