Re: [Comm-en] GTK* apps slowness (rendering hidden windows/icons in windows)

Re: [Comm-en] GTK* apps slowness (rendering hidden windows/icons in windows)

[Alexey Rusakov]

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В Срд, 20/01/2010 в 00:38 +0200, Alex Negulescu пишет:
> Hello,
> 
> Some of the GTK* apps I use have problems when being brought in front
> of other windows.
> One of them is Geany.. Suppose I hit the show desktop button to view
> the desktop, and after that i hit it once again to rise up apps, the
> geany window renders slow, especially it's icons.
> If I bring another window to front, and after that bring geany to
> front, same thing happens. This happens in any window manager I use
> (KDE, Xfce, Gnome).
> 
> Any fix , someone ?
Does it consistently happen to some specific apps? Then it's probably a
problem in these apps, not in GTK+. No such problems here (but I don't
use Geany).

-- 
  Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov
  GNOME Project
  ALT Linux Team

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Re: [Comm-en] GTK* apps slowness (rendering hidden windows/icons in windows)

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 03:02:53PM +0200, Alex Negulescu wrote:
> It happens to all GTK apps, on 3 workstations till now.  All of
> them run altlinux sisyphus (updated daily), 2 of them run kde,
> and the laptop runs xfce.  It's sad and annoying...

1) videocards?
2) kernels?

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Re: [Comm-en] GTK* apps slowness (rendering hidden windows/icons in windows)

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:55:59PM +0200, Alex Negulescu wrote:
> >> It happens to all GTK apps, on 3 workstations till now.  All
> >> of them run altlinux sisyphus (updated daily), 2 of them run
> >> kde, and the laptop runs xfce.  It's sad and annoying...
> > 1) videocards?
> > 2) kernels?
> Cpu: Laptop: Intel Pentium M 1.2GHz, Desktops q7400 and intel pIV @ 3GHz.
> Memory: 1GB, 4GB and 2GB
> On the laptop - videocard i910, on the desktops nvidia 9500 and 6500,

So these are different.

> kernel 2.6.32.  Tried 2.6.30, 2.6.29, 2.6.27. The same on all.

Ouch.

> If I run krusader which is qt, rendering is ok (window contents
> appears instantly), if I run geany, synaptic and others,
> content if the windows (icons, text, bars etc) appears slowly,
> after 1-2 seconds. If I have a lot of tabs in geany or
> bluefish.. it's very slow.

Hmm... is it some broken gtk theme?  Try a new user or moving
~/.gtk* away.

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 ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
  ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/

Re: [Comm-en] [SOLVED] GTK* apps slowness (rendering hidden windows/icons in windows)

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:15:02PM +0200, Alex Negulescu wrote:
> > Hmm... is it some broken gtk theme?  Try a new user or moving
> > ~/.gtk* away.
> Ha. Did not even think at this, and it just works.. I was using
> oxygen but was getting that kind of comportament on any other
> theme.  Thanks :)

Could you please post a bug against package holding that
theme/engine?

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 ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
  ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/