I figured your hands are tied.So far, it seems GTK+ themes turn the Xorg server into a wait station. I switched out the GTK+ Theme for Chrome to it's default one and the system stop laging for Chrome.
However, Iceweasel, Thunderbird [while typing this] is like walking through a time field where the echo to the screen is a solid 1- 2 second delay that scales up to 2 seconds with several keys types in rapid succession.
Unfortunately, I think XUL/MozJS and the Theme engine don't like the latest Xorg/Nvidia combo.
Nvidia thinks it has to do with GPU acceleration verses software acceleration with trapezoids but after discovering the GTK+ Theme lag it's clear that how GTK+ is handling primitive window drawing with GDK and rasterizing fonts to the screen it's clear it's just not a rendering via the Driver side, but how GTK+/GDK, XOrg and Nvidia all work together.
I haven't been the most cordial with Nvidia but it appears as I'm typing this that there are quite a few memory leaks in GTK+ Themes, caching issues and much more.
- Marc On 10/04/2011 02:42 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
"Marc J. Driftmeyer"<m...@reanimality.com> writes:I don't know if it's a timeout issue or what [I'm more well-versed in WindowServer of OS X and Openstep] but this latest fix from Nvidia is nothing but a bag of hurt. Several comments are building already on nvnews.net's Linux Forum.That would indeed be the appropriate place to discuss it. There's literally nothing that we as NVIDIA package maintainers can do, since this is a closed-source driver handed to us as a compiled binary from NVIDIA. They're the only ones who can fix it; there really isn't anything we can do from a packaging perspective. That's not to say that your bug filing is a bad idea. It's good to have it recorded in the BTS so that other people know it's still a problem when they see the same thing. But unfortunately we're pretty much in a waiting game for NVIDIA to figure out what the problem is and release updated drivers.
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