>> After seeing what a memory footprint gnome-terminal has, I figured to check >> what xterm does. Starting that application, it bogs down X11 into a >> slideshow. I've downloaded urxvt and compiled it, starting it does the same. >> Gnome-Terminal however runs fine. At least xterm ran fine on an older SXCE. >> What could be the problem? > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 > See especially the workaround in Comment #8.
Thanks, that fixed xterm. -mg