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gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #138607
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 138607

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JP Foster (jeepster) wrote : Re: [Bug 138607] Re: gnome-terminal memory leak

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 02:13 +0000, Simetrical wrote:
> 1) Which accessibility options might these be? I'd be happy to disable
> them, but I can't find them.
>
> 2) Is this bug still supposed to be Incomplete? The requested
> information was attached.
>
> I've experienced this bug. I just realized gnome-terminal was using
> >500 MB of resident memory, and probably had been for days; Reset and
> Clear on all tabs did nothing, so I restarted it. This is on Gutsy.
> dpkg -l gives version gnome-terminal 2.18.2-0ubuntu.
>
 from the applications toolbar (on hardy should be more or less the same
elsewhere)
Main->System->preferences->universal access->Assistive Technology.
Uncheck "enable assistive technologies".

Basically turns off the screen reader hooks, which is fine as long as
you don't have visual problems.