Performance degradation after KDE runs for sometime

[Christos Lazaridis]

On Monday, November 15, 2010 09:00:26 pm Richard Heck wrote:
> The most obvious problem I have been seeing has to do with window
> switches. It seems as if, all of a sudden,
> they become painfully slow. One version: Ctrl-Alt-Delete completely
> freezes everything, to the point that the
> mouse cursor disappears, and then---like you---I wait 3-5 seconds until
> the logout box finally appears.

I'll add text box scrolling as well. It gets unusably slow after some 
point. A quick fix I've discovered is to disable and enable the desktop 
effects (the other way around works just as well!). 

  Christos.

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