Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Eggers
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:27:48 -0500, Steve Berg wrote: >> 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 >> behav

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Berg
> 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 fin

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-04 Thread Brian Ericson
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/

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread Mark Eggers
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:19:27 -0500, Brian Ericson wrote: > To test that, I compared my W510 against a friend's W500 (which had also > been upgraded). We started "top" and then selected > "System->Preferences" and using the down-arrow key to cycle through the > menu options. "top" showed XOrg top

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/04/2010 04:49 AM, Brian Ericson wrote: > I wonder if anyone else using gnome + nvidia on a machine with an 880M > would also experience the same annoying. behavior... > > Thoughts? Try this. Create another user and login and see if it works better? You might have some old configuration fi

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Ericson
To test that, I compared my W510 against a friend's W500 (which had also been upgraded). We started "top" and then selected "System->Preferences" and using the down-arrow key to cycle through the menu options. "top" showed XOrg topping my CPU at up to 99%, his CPU maybe hit 10% at one point.

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread stan
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:43:35 -0500 > Brian Ericson wrote: > Thanks for the reply! If only... It's acting as though it's under > significant load, but top/iotop/etc. show a completely idle system. That sounds like it is internally spinning its wheels. It should show up in top though as CPU

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Ericson
Thanks for the reply! If only... It's acting as though it's under significant load, but top/iotop/etc. show a completely idle system. On 11/03/2010 02:28 PM, stan wrote: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:42:03 -0500 > Brian Ericson wrote: > >> Has anyone else encountered this? Anyone know what to do t

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread Jason E. High
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2010 03:28 PM, stan wrote: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:42:03 -0500 > Brian Ericson wrote: > >> Has anyone else encountered this? Anyone know what to do to fix it? > > When I fresh installed F14, there were delays such as you mention on > the

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread stan
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:42:03 -0500 Brian Ericson wrote: > Has anyone else encountered this? Anyone know what to do to fix it? When I fresh installed F14, there were delays such as you mention on the gui with Gnome. I checked top and iotop to see what was holding up the works. And it turned o

f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Ericson
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, t