Bug#266812: gnome-terminal is the slowest thing. Ever. In the history of the universe.

[Elladan]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.6.1-6
Severity: normal


*grin* I always wanted to say that.

I run gnome-terminal under an xfce4 session, and then resize it up to,
say, 80x65.

Then I run "screen -r"

... and NINETEEN SECONDS later, it finishes drawing.

Further investigation seems to indicate that the problem is largely that
it's spawning processes.  In fact, it acts like it's spawning a process
for every character, or something.

Specifically, it's spawning these:

elladan  26866  0.0  0.3 10100 3192 ?        R    01:51   0:00 /usr/lib/at-spi/at-spi-registryd --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Accessibility_Registry:1.0 --oaf-ior-fd=27

Oddly enough, mozilla firefox is acting similarly when you type into a
text field.

Please, I beg you, tell me what in the name of all things beautiful and
pretty in the world are these apps doing?!  Even if this is some bug in
some sort of corba service really...  What possible reason do these
things have to talk to a corba service when displaying text?!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center      1:2.6.1-10     The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-4        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                   0.2.29-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1            2.2.3-1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.3-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.0-6        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.5-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.2.1-2        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11               1.0.16-7       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             1.0-1          library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.6-2          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.10-4       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libvte4                   1:0.11.11-4    Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxft2                   2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-1       GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory