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Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
$Id: a07cf90837a3c4373b82d6724b97593810766af7 $ I think I should blog more about random troubleshooting sessions, if nothing else it will remind me what steps I took when it inevitably happens again! Okay, here is the first one – why is my xterm opening so slowly? I have two similarly specced machines at my desk – my primary workstation running Fedora Linux, and a Windows 11 machine. They share the same monitor and input devices, and I switch between them with an iogear KVM.
I don’t think many people care about xterm performance on Windows, so I guess that means it’s up to me to solve this 🙂 Whatever the reason, I concluded it wasn’t a big proportion of startup time, so it doesn’t seem worth worrying about. The idea is to cache a few processes in the background, then all the slow stuff will already be done, ready for you to start working immediately.
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