Appalling desktop performance in F8

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Jan 8, 2008 1:45 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 17:47, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I'd appreciate knowing if anyone else has had similar problems before I
> > > roll back to F7.  It is possible that I am having hardware problems, so
> > > the F7 roll back may not help.
> >
> > I am seeing some similar problems with gnome based FC8 applications
> > leaking memory horribly which they didn't do before. Not quite the same
> > as you report however.
> >
> > Is there anything logged in dmesg when your system stalls ?
>
> The problem I have on F8 with KDE is that there is horrible flickering on the
> right hand edges of all windows, and icons. I've only had that before on FC2
> on the same machine, while running Boinc.
>
> At the moment, I have Archlinux booted up on this machine, and the KDE desktop
> is rock steady, not the slightest flicker. The same goes for F7, and FC5, and
> my Debian installs on this machine. It's odd why F8 is behaving this way.
>
> I have had the desktop totally lockup on this machine, needing a hard reset,
> but I run so many distro's on it that I can't remember which one it was.Doh.
>
> Nigel.


For the purpose of discussions in Fedora forums, "desktop" is an alias
of "Gnome desktop". If you have KDE probs, you might want to create a
separate thread, see if we can help you at all.


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