[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#533798: Bug#533798: xfce4-terminal: Problem running a remote program trough ssh

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam, 2009-06-20 at 15:46 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> I have the following problem on my laptop: I have a XFCE terminal and use
> it to log on to a remote machine using SSH. Then I start a program on the
> remote computer that prints lots of short lines of ordinary text to the
> screen (tens of thousands of lines or more very fast). This I do on one of
> my four XFCE desktop areas. Then I work on another XFCE desktop for a while.
> Sometimes when I switch back to the desktop with the terminal on it, I see
> that the remote program in the terminal seems to be taking a break (not
> printing any output).
> 
> I log on to the remote machine using a second terminal, and see that the
> program is actually not using any CPU at this moment (otherwise it uses
> 100%). So it seems to be waiting for something, maybe to be able to print
> some more to screen.
> 
> But then the program continues to run only if I resize the XFCE terminal. So
> it seems like there is something with the XFCE-terminal that temporarily halts
> the running remote program, by not allowing it to print to screen? 

I can't really reproduce this. Could you provide a reproducible test
case? I don't really know what to do. Something to do is to try with
another vte-based terminal like gnome-terminal.

Cheers,

-- 
Yves-Alexis
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