desktop popup menu takes forever to appear

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:45:56 -0700
> Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>> I'm a long time XFCE user (going all the way back to the 1.x days).
>> I've spent a chunk of timing looking through the list archives for
>> someone else reporting this problem, and found nothing.
>>
>> I've been upgrading my various systems from Fedora14 to Fedora15, and
>> in every case, the time to render the desktop popup menu (right
>> clicking on the desktop) takes many seconds (from 3 to as many as 8
>> seconds).  The menu appeared instantaneously in Fedora14.  What I've
>> noticed in Fedora15, is that immediately after clicking the right
>> mouse button, I see the disk getting hit hard, as if the menu content
>> is getting (re)generated from scratch.  Surely this isn't intentional
>> behavior, so I'm hoping that something trivial is misconfigured to fix
>> this?
>
> There was another Fedora user that ran into a similar issue...
>
> Do you have a ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file? whats in it?

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$ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Download"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
#######


So that looks ok.