desktop wallpaper change very slow

[Marko Viirelä]

I am using a slideshow of tiled background images from Propaganda as my desktop background. I have selected a directory of these images using Desktop Settings dialog. My problem is that whenever a background changes, my desktop slows to crawl for several seconds. I actually have time to launch top during background change only to see Xorg process happily eating away my processor cycles.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 4 10:25:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: kdebase-plasma 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Marko Viirelä (mviirela)]

Forgot to mention that this problem started to occur after I upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10 from previous version. Before that background change was lightning fast (as it should be).

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Is this problem present with the latest updated Karmic's, Lucid's or Maverick's packages?
Thanks in advance
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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!