Dragging or restoring a window is choppy and slow when Nautilus renders desktop

[Boris Terzic]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Environment: this bug is made with "ubuntu-bug" so I assume the relevant versions and packages are attached.

The symptoms are:
- Dragging windows across the screen stutters visibly, intermittently halting for up to half a second. CPU usage is very high at those points, the X (Xorg) Process specifically.
- Restoring a window from its maximized state is similar, the window is reduced to its "normal" size but it takes up to 2-3 seconds for the window itself to redraw and (probably more importantly) for the desktop to redraw or refresh

I've been able to exclude most typical graphics causes such as the nvidia driver or Xorg itself by trying the same in KDE which does not exhibit the problem (same machine, same config).

In fact I can narrow it down specifically to Nautilus: when I go into gconf-editor and set the property "/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop" to false (unchecked) then the problem goes away. So in effect, only when Nautilus is drawing the desktop does this problem occur.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 29 14:38:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Yazen Ghannam (yghannam-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Boris,

Thank you for taking the time to submit a report. It seems that this bug is a duplicate and has been marked as such. If you believe it isn't a duplicate, then please let us know so that we can change it. Thank you again.