Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:06:23 +0200 From: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> To: lopisaur@gmail.com Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Tim Welch <twelch@thepentagon.org> Subject: Re: Preferences slow to appear Message-ID: <1154783183.59740.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1154782466.82081.4.camel@hellion.clcw> References: <20060805120038.AE59F16A501@hub.freebsd.org> <1154782466.82081.4.camel@hellion.clcw>
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On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 08:54 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 12:00 +0000, freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org > wrote: > > Message: 1 > > Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:56:05 -0500 (CDT) > > From: "Tim Welch" <twelch@thepentagon.org> > > Subject: Preferences slow to appear > > To: gnome@freebsd.org > > Message-ID: > > <50970.65.7.255.129.1154735765.squirrel@mail.thepentagon.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > > > With almost any GNOME application, opening the preferences window > > seems > > to take around 80-90% cpu (from gkrellm) and freeze GNOME for > > approximately 2-3 seconds on my machine. Everything from gnome-weather > > to xchat does it. There are no strange themes or other oddities about > > my > > setup. I've tried a clean user as well. > > I also notice a distinct pause whenever rhythmbox changes tracks. It > > lags the mouse cursor and any video output (i.e.. moving a window > > while > > the track is changing will blur that window, then reappear normally > > after rhythmbox is done). > > What could possibly cause these? Some slowness with whatever library > > reads gconf is all I can think of for the preferences problem, but > > what > > about rhythmbox? > > > > System Stats: P4 2.8Ghz HT, 2GB ram, SATA drives on an intel 875 > > chipset > > Freebsd 6.1-STABLE from ~ July 23, 2006 > > Latest ports as of Aug. 1st > > > > -Tim > > > There's been trouble with this since we got 2.14. > One thing to try is to rebuild all of GNOME + Dependencies (This has > worked for me) > An easier way is to search the mailing list. There should be a tip about > rebuilding your icon cache (Look at May/June, maybe earlier). If this > doesn't work, rebuild. > I'd like to be more precise about the icon cache, but I'm running late > once again and can't search for it myself. > > Good luck. I had the same problem when I upgraded from 2.12 to 2.14, and after many frustrating days attempting to fix the problem I just gave up and rebuild all of Gnome. After that everything was fine. -- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
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