F12 KDE - slow response when clicking task bar items

Graham TerMarsch fedora at howlingfrog.com
Mon Nov 30 18:21:25 UTC 2009


On November 28, 2009, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> > On November 26, 2009, Craig White wrote:
> > > Since I upgraded to F12, I have noticed that it is very slow to respond
> > > to clicks in the task bar - i.e., a long delay if I click the 'fedora'
> > > start button or any of the applications in the 'Task Switcher' widget.
> > >
> > I've noticed exactly the same behaviour, and its driving me nuts...
> > clicking on the "Start" Menu takes ~10-15s to pop up, but starting apps
> > on my panel by clicking on the icon works nice and fast.  KRunner also
> > takes ~10-15s to appear if I hit ALT-F2, and more often than not bringing
> > up the desktop context menu is fast but it then stalls when trying to 
> > disappear again.
> 
> First off, this bug specifically refers to the use of the binary NVidia
> driver, which I know at least one of the posters on this thread says that
> they are not using.  But, the manifestations described are just like what
> you all are describing, and they are exactly what I WAS experiencing with
> Fedora 12: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620

Steven, reading through the info on that bug, I can confirm that the "-12" 
packages mentioned in it have solved this issue for me (yay!).  Thanks for 
passing the bugzilla link along; *very* helpful.

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Graham TerMarsch




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