On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:07:06PM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: > On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 09:25, Sean Proctor wrote: > > > things are *much* slower for me than they were a few days ago. I think it > > was either the upgrade to gtk 2.2 or perhaps a metacity upgrade. when I > > drag around a box, it moves very slow, and xfree86 starts using a large > > portion of my processor (60 - 70%, metacity at around 10 - 15%, gnome-term > > (the app I'm moving around) at 10%, xterm (the non-gtk app in the > > background, > > using a gtk app like nautilus or freecell seemed to make things worse > > (around 10% or so)) at around 3%. > > I suggest trying a different metacity version, 2.4.13 is very bad in my > experience. I downgraded to 2.4.8-4 for now.
2.4.13 has a bug that makes window move/resize lag, try 2.4.21. (Or 2.4.8, or latest CVS) > As for GTK, I also got the impression that 2.2 is slightly slower > sometimes, I think in part due to better layout (e.g. the tasklist group > menu is never partly offscreen now). The only change that might affect GTK 2.0 vs. 2.2 speed very much is moving from Xft1/core-X-fonts to Xft2. This should make things faster on proper X drivers, but some of them have buggy RENDER and such, apparently. Havoc
