Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:55:56 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Multiple monitors |
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Simon Hay wrote: > Also, though, on dedicated servers etc. I'd rather not be running X if > I didn't have to.
You may find that a full screen xterm, with no window manager, actually runs much faster than the console and looks identical. It is certainly the case on several of my machines.
This is most pronounced if X can do hardware acceleration on your video card, although it is true even without acceleration because of xterm's nice jump scroll capability. (Btw, I prefer gnome-terminal because of the Linux-console colour emulation :-).
On one 686 class machine, I saw text mode take nearly two seconds to scroll the screen, when all but one line of the screen was being scrolled (so it had to copy everything). This was in pure text mode, not even a framebuffer! In X it was invisibly fast.
Also you may get a better refresh rate and higher resolution fonts out of X, which is nice on a big display.
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