#144528 eterm: Slow start, slow menus, wrong term settings, problems with themes

Package:
eterm
Source:
eterm
Description:
Enlightened Terminal Emulator
Submitter:
Thorsten Haude
Date:
2005-07-18 03:23:56 UTC
Severity:
normal
#144528#5
Date:
2002-04-25 17:23:36 UTC
From:
To:
After I apt-get-upgraded on 2002-04-22, I have massive problems with Eterm:
- It takes about ten seconds to start an Eterm, five seconds to close
it, five seconds to to popup a menu. (P800 w/ 500MB RAM)

- While sshing to other machines, I get display errors and errors are
reported by applications:
- - - Schnipp - - -
hde@acp1130> man ls
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
- - - Schnapp - - -
I have no problems in terminals running on remote machines.

- My themes were initially ignored and the default theme used. I meanwhile
rewrote an existing 0.9 theme to 0.9.2 and that is accepted. Before that,
the shells in Eterm were always started as login shells.

Dave Sherohman suggested to have a look at ~/.xsession-errors, but I can't
find anything suspicious
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200204/msg04216.html)

Several bugs seem to be similar; the symptoms are slightly different
however. I have not installed xfstt.
(#110298, #78555, #78842)

Also on 2002-04-22, Alan Su reported similar problems in debian-user.
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200204/msg03855.html)

If I can provide straces, debug logfiles or any other information, I would
gladly do so.
#144528#10
Date:
2002-04-25 19:24:34 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

bug(1) somehow got my address wrong. Please use debian@thorstenhau.de

Thorsten
#144528#15
Date:
2002-04-26 15:24:07 UTC
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To:
Look for /usr/share/terminfo/E/Eterm.  If it's there, don't worry
about it.  If it's not, let us know.

I had a feeling... :)

It would take a lot of work to try to create a utility that converted
old themes to new ones.  If you use the stock themes, though, you
should be okay.

Okay, we're getting somewhere.

If you could insert lines like the following:

    D_CMD(("Moo!"));

in various places in the init_locale() function and at the top part of
init_command().  I can see from the timestamps on the left side of the
debugging output that the delay is somewhere between the start of
init_command() and the D_CMD(("Xfd = %d\n", Xfd)); on line 2289.  We
just need to try and narrow it down further. :)

Thanks,
Michael
#144528#20
Date:
2002-04-26 18:23:03 UTC
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[1019840354]    command.c | 1753: create_fontset(): 144528: XCreateFontSet() follows
[1019840367]    command.c | 1755: create_fontset(): 144528: XCreateFontSet() over

This clearly shows that the entire delay (13 seconds) is spent inside
XCreateFontSet(), not in Eterm.  This is not an Eterm problem.

Michael
#144528#27
Date:
2002-05-03 11:04:42 UTC
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To:
Hi Laurence & Michael,

I installed some font packages for entirely different reasons
(problems with Evolution), and that fixed Eterm's slow start.
I don't use menus and I don't know how to check them quickly, because
I still have only 0.9.1 themes beside the one I fixed.

The packages are:
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded
xfonts-base-transcoded
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded

The other problems are still there.

Thorsten