Hi List, I've been using Debian Etch happily since about October 2007. It's a great, stable environment for the development work I do.
After some testing in a virtual machine and on a couple of spare boxes, I decided to move from Etch to Lenny. Unfortunately, I didn't pay enough attention to the speed of Evolution and other GTK programs during my testing. The problem is that I use XDMCP to connect to the server on which my Debian system is running. It seems that GTK programs in Lenny run rather badly. The particular problem seems to be scrolling GTK lists, which is very sluggish (unusably so). I use Evolution as my mail client and scrolling big lists is a major feature of my usage pattern. Scrolling OpenOffice is also a problem (this goes away if I open OpenOffice in KDE). I'm connecting from a Debian 5 computer running an X server to my Debian 5 server. I also tried connecting to a fresh (i.e. not upgraded from Etch) Debian 5 installation running in a virtual machine and demonstrated the same problem. If I connect to an Ubuntu 8.04 virtual machine, performance scrolling GTK lists in Evolution is faster than when connecting to the Lenny OSes and quite acceptable. Ubuntu 8.04 has very similar Evolution/Gnome versions to Debian Lenny, though I believe they are slightly different. So, has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone have a workaround? very best regards, Seb James (note - I DO have the RENDER extension on the PC at which I am sitting) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
