f14 gnome unusable

Brian Ericson bericson at ptc.com
Thu Nov 4 16:32:13 UTC 2010


http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=253668

Quoting the relevant bit:
Update - apparently this issue is related to the GTK theme in use. The 
default (Fedora, or Clearlooks, or a few others) results in this slow 
behaviour. Other themes, like Nodoka and a few others perform fine.

On 11/03/2010 01:42 PM, Brian Ericson wrote:
> Just upgraded to f14.
>
> The upgrade itself was smooth (thanks!), but Gnome's (UI) performance
> has completely and utterly tanked.  If I open a terminal and a second
> tab in the terminal, switching between tabs takes upwards of 4 seconds.
> Same thing with FireFox tabs (Chrome/Chrome tabs are fine, though).  The
> blue highlighting of Gnome menus is incapable of following even a
> slow-moving mouse, alt-tab takes forever, and repainting minimized
> windows is awful.
>
> Basically, I got better GUI performance out of f13 with all my CPUs and
> drives pegged than I'm getting now on an idle system.
>
> Interestingly, KDE isn't impacted at all by any of this and even Gnome
> apps (like terminal) are snappy. I even went so far as to create a new
> user to see if some f13 Gnome configuration is the culprit, but the new
> user has exactly the same issues.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?  Anyone know what to do to fix it?


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