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Re: How to fix a crashing Nautilus



On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:07:06PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 09:25, Sean Proctor wrote: 
> 
> > things are *much* slower for me than they were a few days ago. I think it 
> > was either the upgrade to gtk 2.2 or perhaps a metacity upgrade. when I 
> > drag around a box, it moves very slow, and xfree86 starts using a large 
> > portion of my processor (60 - 70%, metacity at around 10 - 15%, gnome-term 
> > (the app I'm moving around) at 10%, xterm (the non-gtk app in the background, 
> > using a gtk app like nautilus or freecell seemed to make things worse 
> > (around 10% or so)) at around 3%.
> 
> I suggest trying a different metacity version, 2.4.13 is very bad in my
> experience. I downgraded to 2.4.8-4 for now.

2.4.13 has a bug that makes window move/resize lag, try 2.4.21. (Or
2.4.8, or latest CVS)

> As for GTK, I also got the impression that 2.2 is slightly slower
> sometimes, I think in part due to better layout (e.g. the tasklist group
> menu is never partly offscreen now).

The only change that might affect GTK 2.0 vs. 2.2 speed very much is
moving from Xft1/core-X-fonts to Xft2. This should make things faster
on proper X drivers, but some of them have buggy RENDER and such,
apparently.

Havoc



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