Bug#401194: libvte4: gnome-terminal uses 100% cpu when the screen is full of email addresses.

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 01 décembre 2006 à 16:33 +0100, Arthur Petitpierre a écrit :
> Package: libvte4
> Version: 1:0.12.2-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> If your gnome-terminal's window is full of email addresses,
> gnome-terminal starts to take 100% cpu as soon as your mouse is put over
> the text.
> 
> To reproduce it, open a gnome-terminal, maximise it and enter the
> following at the prompt :
> $ python -c "print(['toto at toto.com' for i in range(500)])"
> 
> You end up with a window full of email addresses and when your cursor
> pass over the window, gnome-terminal take 100% for a while.

For the record, this bug is fixed in vte 0.14.1 in experimental.

Also, as vte 0.14 doesn't depend on gtk 2.10, it may be an option to
upload it to unstable. It definitely brings important speed
improvements.
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Josselin Mouette                /\./\

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