Apologies for blaming out beloved Sawfish; the update slowness seemed
to be due to something bogus that Firefox was doing.
However, it would be nice to know the cause of this error:
Moving aside my configuration to see if I have something
in there results in the error:
Error: Can't start gtkrc-style-program
mark
Mark Diekhans <[email protected]> writes:
>
> After building sawfish 1.6.1, the window movement (opaque
> animation mode) has become sluggish to the point of being
> unusable. On a 1920x1200 display, moving firefox causes
> the X server to hammer the CPU to 70-90% busy.
>
> This is on a CentoS 5.2 system without root access, so it
> required building all of the gtk+ dependencies and sawfish
> into a separate directory.
>
> Previously, I was running a version from the old svn tree
> from around 2009-04-14 and it was very fast.
>
> Moving aside my configuration to see if I have something
> in there results in the error:
> Error: Can't start gtkrc-style-program