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Friday, November 3rd 2006, 6:14pm

slow-motion desktop

I run a debian/testing box
Since an apt-get dist-upgrade last week all my (X / KDE) windows move slowly; stuttering. They stutter at opening (e.g. Konsole, Konqueror firefox, gvim etc.) like slow-motion. And when I move them around on desktop they move ropy like a „wave“: at first starts the top third of the window; then moves the middle third and at last follows the remainder of window.
Yes I have an old CPU (1,3 Ghz) – though before this upgrade the movements were smooth and light.

The kde-components went up from version 3.5.4 to 3.5.5
The X-components (xorg, xserver-xorg) went up from version 7.0.22 to 7.1.0
The X-components (xserver-common) from 1.0.2-9 to 1.1.1-10

I tried to switch font aliasing on / off – no difference
KsysGuard shows a CPU-load 18%, SwapMemory 0%, LoadAverage very small...
I killed most of my processes (the remaining processes are listed below) – no really difference

So – I can live with this behaviour
But I would appreciate any advice



UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 init [2]
root 2 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 3 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:01 [events/0]
root 4 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [khelper]
root 5 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kthread]
root 8 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
root 9 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kacpid]
root 91 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kseriod]
root 128 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush]
root 129 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush]
root 130 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd0]
root 131 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [aio/0]
root 253 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kpsmoused]
root 256 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 354 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 udevd --daemon
root 573 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [khubd]
root 937 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 939 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
root 941 5 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald]
daemon 1036 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/portmap
root 1292 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/syslogd
root 1298 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/klogd -x
root 1550 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dirmngr --daemon --sh
root 1622 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root 1808 1 0 Oct30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 2049 1 0 Oct30 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root 2050 1 0 Oct30 tty2 00:00:00 /bin/login --
root 2051 1 0 Oct30 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root 2052 1 0 Oct30 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root 2055 1 0 Oct30 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root 2056 1 0 Oct30 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
root 3279 2050 0 18:06 tty2 00:00:00 -bash
root 3309 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/kdm
root 3311 3309 7 18:06 tty7 00:01:36 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-dCWXWn
root 3312 3309 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 -:0
willi 3324 3312 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/x-session-manager
willi 3379 3324 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
willi 3382 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
willi 3383 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
root 3412 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup
willi 3413 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit Running...
willi 3416 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid
willi 3418 3413 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup
willi 3420 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:01 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup
willi 3425 3324 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper ksmserver
willi 3427 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver [kdeinit]
willi 3428 3413 0 18:06 ? 00:00:01 kwin [kdeinit] -session 10e4656265000111143230700000086660000_1162152045_615190
willi 3430 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:02 kdesktop [kdeinit]
willi 3432 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:04 kicker [kdeinit]
willi 3433 3413 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 kio_file [kdeinit] file /tmp/ksocket-willi/klauncherml9aAa.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-willi/kdesktopH2fJ0a.slave-socket
willi 3443 1 0 18:06 ? 00:00:00 kaccess [kdeinit]
willi 3447 3413 0 18:06 ? 00:00:05 konsole [kdeinit] -session 10e4656265000111152490300000036400014_1162152045_578798
willi 3455 3447 0 18:06 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/bash
root 3457 3447 0 18:06 pts/3 00:00:00 su -
root 3555 3457 0 18:08 pts/3 00:00:00 -su
willi 3566 3413 0 18:10 ? 00:00:02 konsole [kdeinit]
willi 3567 3566 0 18:10 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/bash
root 3589 3566 0 18:10 pts/1 00:00:00 su -
root 3590 3589 0 18:10 pts/1 00:00:00 -su
willi 3606 1 0 18:16 ? 00:00:00 knotify [kdeinit]
root 3624 3555 0 18:28 pts/3 00:00:00 ps -ef

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Friday, November 3rd 2006, 6:29pm

RE: slow-motion desktop

Do you have Composite enabled? You can disable it by right clicking a title bar, Configure Window Behaviour, and choose the last section Transparency.
Bram Schoenmakers
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Saturday, November 4th 2006, 12:54pm

RE: slow-motion desktop

no - that isn't the reason
but thank you for your hint - that's great

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Sunday, November 5th 2006, 1:27pm

RE: slow-motion desktop

Hmm, I think it's a video driver problem then. Are you using 3rd party drivers from nVidia or ATI?
Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)