Rendering of Desktop icons very slow
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libcairo (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
When I switch virtual desktops or minimize an application which was previously maximized, it takes nautilus 1.5seconds to render the desktop icons. It renders the background immediately, but the virtual desktops dialog which shows in the middle of the screen is shown during the delay.
This is on a 2Ghz laptop.
As a side note, Resizing windows is also slow, there is a noticeable(.5s) delay for about every 200px of the deskop that is revealed.
Also, if I run 'top' in a terminal and then resize the terminal, I notice that the CPU useage of Xorg jumps to 84-90%, so this may be a bug in the Xorg server somewhere. Because I'm unsure, I've filed it here.
Although I know how to build and run a debug version of the nautilus package, i'm unsure on how to catch it in the middle of this delay to see what is delaying it so much. Any pointers on this would be appreciated.
Thanks for your bug. That's a known cairo/xorg issue