Really slow panel after an upgrade?

[Andrew Robinson]

Will give it a try and let you know, thanks

On 6/13/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Andrew Robinson <andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am still having this issue. The problem seems okay until I hibernate
> > and un-hibernate my laptop. I tried killing all of my users processes
> > and then restarting X, but it was still extremely slow. Only rebooting
> > my laptop seems to have any affect.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Sorry I missed this before; I would've responded then.
>
> Well, first thing to try is a) run Xfce as a different user or b)
> move/rename your ~/.config folder and run it.  Basically, run it with
> a fresh config, sans plugins, etc.
>
> Also, are you using the Composite extension in Xorg?
>
> BTW, I know nothing about that patch and don't use Slackware, so any
> specific problems with those are beyond me.
>
> > On 5/18/06, Andrew Robinson <andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Problem:
> > > My panel is extremely slow to respond to mouse events. It takes ~ 5
> > > seconds to even paint the mouse over affect and raise a tooltip for my
> > > icons in the panel.
> > >
> > > What changed?
> > > This didn't always behave this way, the problem began to occur right
> > > after I applied a slackware security patch to XOrg.
> > >
> > > The patch contained:
> > > x11-6.8.2-i486-5.tgz
> > > x11-devel-6.8.2-i486-5.tgz
> > >
> > > Here is the slackware advisory:
> > > http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.437110
> > >
> > > I am using a non-standard environment however. I installed MonoDevelop
> > > and during that installation, it needed updated gnome libraries and
> > > gdi plus libraries.
> > >
> > > I am using slackware 10.2.
> > >
> > > Any ideas of why the updated x11 (xorg) libraries would have cause the
> > > panel to be really slow? My xfce taskbar is still really fast, it is
> > > only the panel that is slow.
> > >
> > > Here is a configuration of my panel:
> > >
> > > xfce menu
> > > mini commane line
> > > several launchers
> > > show desktop
> > > mount/display devices
> > > graphical pager
> > > System buttons
> > > System tray (KDE applications: kblticker, gaim, thunderbird notification plugin)
> > > WaveLAN plugin
> > > Clipboard Plugin
> > > Battery Monitor
> > > Volume Control
> > > Netload
> > > System Load
> > > Taskbar
> > > Xfce clock
> > >
> > > Even if I restart X the problem doesn't go away. It did go away after
> > > I rebooted linux (odd, but true).
> > >
> > > Any Ideas?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Andrew
> > >
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