Gnome is almost freezing

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi François

François BARILLON wrote:
> "some gnome-preference-panel daemon could not be launched"
> 
> Then, opening a desktop menu takes about 30 second and everything
> related with Gnome is extremely slowwwwww.
> 
> I've been told to install kubuntu-destop and then edubuntu-desktop 
> or switch gdm->kdm->gdm.
> 
> Could it be a good idea.

Are you logging in as different users on the machines? I've seen similar 
behavior when people log in as the same user on different machines before.

-Jonathan