Analyzing and improving GNOME startup time

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le jeudi 06 octobre 2005 à 13:35 +0200, Martin Holt Juliussen a écrit :

> After what I have understood, it's because of the Cairo backend and that
> it is not optimized yet. It seems it has only gotten worse while
> development of Breezy has come forward. Dragging a window over a another
> is disaster compared to how it was in Hoary 

Hi,

There is some xrender issues causing slowness. What kind of videocard do
you have? Could you try http://people.ubuntu.com/~seb128/cairo/ packages
to note if that makes a difference? They have a patch that force a
workaround for bugged xrender.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher