Ubuntu
powernowd package

  1. Bug #13597
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 13597

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

Your analysis is incorrect for two reasons:
a) GNOME/GTK+ uses a lot of Xrender. If this is not accelerated, then this is
the driver's fault (in this case, nVidia).
b) gnome-terminal generally uses a lot more resources than Konsole.