On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:49 PM, ilf <ilf_AT_zeromail.org> wrote:
> I am running the same tmux session in both rxvt-unicode and st next to each
> other. The drawing speed of st does indeed feel better than before, but it's
> still way slower than rxvt in everything I have tried. This is one of the
> issues still holding me back from switching to st as my main terminal
> emulator. Do other terms have magic in their rendering code for extra speed?
It's strange because fast scrolling in tmux seems to be the only case
where st is unbearably slow. I've tried to profile this [1] but I've
not found anything conclusive...
> Second thing to notice is the font height. st displays six more lines than
> rxvt, with tmux padding them. I changed $FONT in config.h:
>
> -#define FONT "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-120-75-75-*-60-*-*"
> +#define FONT "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
>
> But it has no effect. Where do I change this?
You have to change FONT and BOLDFONT. To get a valid XLFD (the string
with all the *-*-*) you can use xfontsel(1). You will particularly
want to change the family (fmly) and height (pxlsz) field.
> Last, has anyone managed to adjust the transparency patch to this version?
> http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1009/6046.html
> https://gist.github.com/1432900
I don't know. But you can be sure it will trigger another troll-fest.
1: see this thread
http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1201/10814.html
Received on Wed Feb 08 2012 - 15:47:00 CET