Bug#453266: xfce4-terminal: text displays slowly and hogs CPU in some tabs and instances

[mmassonnet at gmail.com]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:09:17PM +0100, Giovanni Toraldo wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> same problem with my lenny.
> If I use composite extension in xorg (no matter if you are using
> transparency effects on xfce or not), workspace switching when there are
> some xfce4-terminal open is very slow. Also using gnome-terminal. Now I
> switched to roxterm that doesn't has this annoying bug.

That's because the terminal still draws the widget with an alpha channel
(argb).  To avoid this despit of the Composite extension, export the
variable XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1.

mike