gnome 2.2 sluggishness

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grandpajive · Post by **grandpajive** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 4:42 am

Gnome 2.2 is almost usable for me. However, dragging the icons around, right clicking on the desktop chosing something, then clicking on the menu takes up 100% of my cpu time when doing this. I wouldn't care but X becomes extremely unresponsive until it releases the cpu.

I just unmerged gnome + most of the libraries, along with gnome and it still fails. Doesnt seem like anyone else is having this problem, but this is just impossible for me to use gnome 2.2, which is nice otherwise.

David_Escott · Post by **David_Escott** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 5:20 am

downgrade your nvidia drivers from 4xxx to 3xxx

I am assuming that you are getting hit by the bug that seems to be the most common reason

karl11 · Post by **karl11** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 5:38 am

I have also had similar problems with fam and gnome before. Might want to disable fam and see if that helps.

Karl

not_registered · Post by **not_registered** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 8:37 am

stop nautilus from drawing the desktop

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 9:24 am

I have the same problem with nvidia 41.x drivers...

not tried to downgrade the driver yet

sisob · Post by **sisob** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 10:23 am

It's a known bug with the new drivers. Nvidia will hopefully
fix it real soon. For the moment i suggest downgrading.

grandpajive · Post by **grandpajive** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 11:27 am

That did it. I neglected to mention that I had disabled fam, as I couldnt get the theme manager to come up [tho switch2 did a decent job, I guess]. But downgrading the nvidia-kernel & nvidia-glx did an excellent job.. this is much better.

Odd that it really wasn't noticable in kde 3.1 tho.. *shrug*

Thanks everyone!

gnome 2.2 sluggishness

gnome 2.2 sluggishness

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