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Re: mintty slow refresh rate over RDP
On 11/27/18 1:14 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>> Glass ttys needed special hardware because the early uP chips running at low
>> speeds with small ROMs could not do much between displaying lines.
>> VT100 smooth scroll with No Scroll key toggle was like having more/less built in
>> to the terminal; VT52 had a Scroll key which supported something similar.
NOW you're bringing me back to freshman year :)
I remember building a system from scratch and having no "less" or "more"
tool, and the only way I could find a build error before it scrolled by
was to turn on the "smooth scroll" button.
>>> A good suggestion anyway.
>>> However, if you provide instructions on how to reproduce the issue, I may find
>>> time to check out whether there is some improvement potential.
My use case:
1) run windows 7 in a VM
2) use rdesktop (ubuntu xenial, rdesktop Version 1.8.3) to connect to
the windows box's desktop (used to run visual studio, etc.)
3) launch mintty, maximize the window
4) run a build that spits out a lot of logging. This can be simulated
with "od /dev/urandom".
On my machine, it will lock up the desktop for a while, until I can
switch desktops, ssh into the windows box, and kill the offending process.
This is certainly multiple bugs, since X11 shouldn't lock up in any
case. However, I can play fullscreen video over rdesktop without an
issue, so I'm not sure why the console is so graphically intensive.
> More recent RDP sessions should fix this. They do not send GDI calls
> and instead capture the screen at intervals and compress it.
This is true. Unfortunately, none of them have made it into distros
yet. A local build of xfreerdp 2.0 will work fine, BUT that version
removes a few features I use [insert oblig XKCD here]. So *shrug*.
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