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That's mostly not X11, but fancy DEs with fancy DE-oriented apps. Try some lightweight window manager with xterm.

• Izkata 9y ago
  This, definitely. Even on Gnome, using xterm is far more responsive than the default gnome-terminal. I switched years ago because of how much a difference it made for me.
• ahartmetz 9y ago
  Also try KDE Plasma with default settings, see my other comment.