[gentoo-user] slow screen redraw in terminal windows after sync

[Alan Warren]

I recently sync'd after not having done so in 36 days. Among the
 packages updated were firefox-bin and xulrunner.

 While using awesome wm, I first noticed firefox-bin wouldn't display,
 but it launched fine in gnome.

 I tried launching firefox-bin from a terminal, but got no errors. The
 process seemed to launch fine, but I couldn't see firefox anywhere.
 Before killing the firefox process I noticed my urxvt windows would draw
 very slowly. If I view a man page or ls a large dir, it's as if the
 text were slowly being revealed one line at a time. Other
 non-terminal based applications would launch and run fine though.

 I sync'd again, and to my surprise both firefox and xulrunner were updated.
 Now firefox-bin launches on my x86_64 system, but I still have the problem
 with terminal windows redrawing themselves very slowly using either urxvt
or gnome-terminal.

 If I use a webkit browser ( uzbl ), the effect is much less apparent, if
not
 completely gone.

 Is there anything I can try, or more information I can provide?


 Thanks,
 Alan