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Author: | Phil Allen [ Sat Sep 07, 2013 11:40 pm ] |
Post subject: | [SOLVED] Applications menu slow to display |
Hi Stephen, First of all, thanks for a great distro ! I now have it installed on 2 laptops and my desktop PC. I am not in education, but I still find the apps and shortcuts very useful. It really is a well put together system. Well done !!! The only thing that bugs me at the moment is the Applications menu. As the title of this post says, quite often when I click 'Applications', it takes several seconds for the menu to appear - not always, but often enough to be annoying. This happens on all the installations. I have only installed a few extra programs, such as gFTP, mtPaint, Teamviewer8 (not normally running). Any ideas on what is causing the slowdown ? Regards, Phil |
Author: | Stephen Ewen [ Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:20 am ] |
Post subject: | [SOLVED] Applications menu slow to display |
Two things you can try. 1. Click anywhere on the desktop before clicking on the menu. 2. Use less compositing: Applications > System > Look and Feel > Compositing > Start Least Does either of these work? |
Author: | Phil Allen [ Sun Sep 08, 2013 6:27 pm ] |
Post subject: | [SOLVED] Applications menu slow to display |
Stephen Ewen wrote: Two things you can try. 1. Click anywhere on the desktop before clicking on the menu. 2. Use less compositing: Applications > System > Look and Feel > Compositing > Start Least Does either of these work? Dang! I never thought of that.... ![]() No.1 makes no difference, but no.2 does seem to speed things up quite a bit. Many thanks. Now, how do I get US to startup 'Least' instead of default 'Medium' ? The next time I start US, it has reverted to 'Medium'. The only way I can see is to copy the command out of xcompmgr-run.sh, and modify the desktop compositing setting in Session/Startup. Regards, Phil |
Author: | Stephen Ewen [ Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:07 pm ] |
Post subject: | [SOLVED] Applications menu slow to display |
There's a couple of ways to do that. Here's a global way: Hit Alt+F2 on your keyboard and paste in the following line and hit Enter Code: gksu leafpad /usr/share/uberstudent/compositing/compton-run-startup.sh Now, scroll down to the second to the last line of text and comment it out so it looks like this: Code: # compton --shadow-exclude "! name~=''" --config /usr/share/uberstudent/compositing/compton-default.conf -b & (Note that all you are doing is adding a # to the beginning of the line) Now, below the line you just commented out, paste in the following line exactly as shown: Code: nohup xcompmgr >script.out 2>&1 & Save, and when you reboot (or log out and log back in) the minimal compositing will start. I'll make all this a matter of unticking one box and ticking another in UberStudent 4.0. ![]() |
Author: | Phil Allen [ Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:48 pm ] |
Post subject: | [SOLVED] Applications menu slow to display |
Thanks, Stephen. That's just what I needed... ![]() Your idea for US4 would be welcome. It would be nice if the menu in 'System/Look and Feel/Compositing' could show which one was currently active, though I appreciate that this may be dificult to achieve. Anyways, many thanks for your help, much appreciated. Regards, Phil |
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