Gnome slow as Windows Vista on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

[Douglas Moyes]

I have a tri-boot computer: Windows XP, Windows Vista (ugh), and Linux (Ubuntu). After upgrading to 8.04, I noticed that my desktop GNOME desktop was running as slow as Windows Vista! For some idiotic reason, the desktop was set to use "enhanced" video settings, which did little to improve the appearance of the desktop, but did wonders for making it slow as hell. Mind you, I'm running a dual-core AMD 64 computer, with the latest nVidia drivers for my GeForce 7600 GS video card.

This just makes Ubuntu look bad. The desktop video enhancements should be OFF by default, not ON. Earlier versions of GNOME would crash if these were turned on with my video card, so some users of GNOME may be having issues with the new version of Ubuntu if these features are left on.

After turning off the video enhancements, my desktop was zooming agian, and it wasn't taking 2-3 seconds for a window to pop up, or for the desktop to respond to clicks. I'm just glad FVWM is still available as a package.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, gnome-desktop is a library and the about GNOME dialog, not the right component to send bugs usually. reassigning to compiz but the extra effects are not enable on an ubuntu installation, either you changed this setting or used something which did

[Douglas Moyes (aragorn-stellimare)]

Funny you should say that, since this system was a fresh install. The only thing that had changed was the installation of the manufacturer's nVidia drivers. On all new installs, I bust out gdm, install the graphic drivers (I only use nVidia graphics cards in my systems, whether integrated into the motherboard or not), and then launch synaptic to install other packages. Synaptic was running slowly too, but it didn't occur to me that it had anything to do with the gnome configuration till I launched firefox and it took 1-2 seconds for drop-down menus to pop up.

The only thing that the nVidia drivers change are the X11 config, they normally don't make a habit of muking up GNOME configs. I have another system that I'll be turning into a honeypot which also has an nVidia graphics card. My plan was to put BlueWhite on it, but I'll see if I can duplicate this for ubuntu.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.