Gnome/KDE terminal is too slow when scrolling. How can I improve its performance?

Anti-aliasing feature takes up a lot of system resources. Turn this option off, if you feel that your system is responding too slowly.

Please follow the instruction below to disable the anti-aliasing option.

From Gnome:

1. Login to Gnome desktop environment.

2. Click Gnome application menu.

3. Click Preferences.

4. Click Font. RESULT: Font Preferences dialog box opens.

5. Select Monochrome from the Font Rendering area.

6. Click Details. RESULT: Font Rending Details dialog box opens.

7. Select None for both Smoothing and Hinting.

8. Click Close.

9. Exit from the Font Preferences dialog box.

From KDE:

1. Login to KDE.

2. Click on the KDE application menu.

3. Click on Control Center RESULT: Control Center opens up.

4. From the Index menu, click Appearance and Theme.

5. Click Fonts.

6. Clear Use anti-aliasing for fonts.

7. Click Apply and exit from Control Center.