From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 13:06:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F1B16A4DA for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 13:06:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C52A43D45 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 13:06:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:20587 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1G9Lr8-00004T-2a; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:06:18 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: lopisaur@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1154782466.82081.4.camel@hellion.clcw> References: <20060805120038.AE59F16A501@hub.freebsd.org> <1154782466.82081.4.camel@hellion.clcw> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:06:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1154783183.59740.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Tim Welch Subject: Re: Preferences slow to appear X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:06:20 -0000 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" > > 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