Re: slow system if trayicon is animated
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On 2012-11-12 10:56, Lars Schimmer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I do use KDE 4.8.4-3 from sid on my debian AMD64 system.
> kde-plasma-desktop is version 5:77.
>
> Everytime the tray Icons show a animation (XChat blinking ! or the
> rotating information from Kopete), the KDE gui gets very very slow
> and unresponsive.
>
> I use a onBoard AMD graphics chipset [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon
> HD 4250] with the freeware driver, as the AMD radeon does no more
> support this chipset.
>
> Due to power consumption, noise and heat I do not want to use a
> seperate graphics hardware in that system.
>
> (but even on a second system with a nVidia Corporation G70
> [GeForce 7800 GTX] (rev a1) the system is slow while tray Icons are
> animated).
>
> Even on adding/removing a tray icon the system/GUI gets slow. But
> if the tray icons are static, system is fine, playing FullHD video
> is possible via VLC with no problem.
>
>
> Any idea on howto not slow down the system without using a HighEnd
> graphics adapter?
Ok, some more information:
XOrg does use 4GB memory. After restarting X subsystem, Xorg does only
use 200-300 MB memory and the slowness is gone - until XOrg somehow
does want more memory.
MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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