When I try to change *some* preferences in gnome applications, I suffer very long delays before the appropriate "preferences" dialog box appears. And again when closing it. For example: gnome-terminal: right-clicking and selecting "Edit Current Profile" "hangs" gnome-terminal for a good minute. And then I get a spate of "Authentication Required" dialog boxes, where it appears to ask for the passwords for the smb "bookmarks". I click "Cancel" and "Deny" as appropriate on these. During this long delay, the right-click menu is still displayed, but "dead" until the first dialog box appears: at this point the right-click menu vanishes again. After having clicked cancel/deny on the dialog boxes, the profile editor finally appears. And the *really* annoying bit: Once I *close* the profile editor, I get more of those dialog boxes!! grrr... Similarly in epiphany: Edit->Preferences results in an seemingly identical "hang", menu behaviour and dialog boxes both before and after the preferences dialog. The delays appear to be triggered by the presence of smb and/or ssh shortcuts in the nautilus "bookmarks". If I add a nautilus bookmark for an smb server, the problem appears. Remove the bookmark, and everything is back to normal(!). The more bookmarks like this I add, the longer the delay seems. Local bookmarks does not appear to affect the delay. This happens is across several Gnome apps, so I'm not sure what keywords to google for... Now: before you all shout: "Well, don't do it then!" I'd like to find out whether this is a problem in my configuration/interpretation or a proper bug... Oddly enough, other "preferences" do not suffer from this problem, e.g. changing the desktop font (or any of the other items under Desktop->Preferences). Also, changing preferences in Nautilus (from Nautilus' own Edit->Preferences) behaves as it should(!). If I use gconf-editor to change values under /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default (or any other profile name) the effects are near-instantaneous... It's only the journey to and from (some of) the "proper" preferences dialogs that appear affected... I cannot see any clues in $HOME/.xsession-errors (I start gnome from .xsession) or from stdout/stderr when I launch things... Why are those preferences dialogs trying access my bookmarked places ? seems a bit freaky... -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!
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