Clayton said the following on 09/10/2009 05:47 PM:
This is usually accompanied by the same sluggishness with the items on the bottom panel of my KDE4 screen. The command menu pops up some minutes - yes minutes - after I click on it. The delay in the pager makes it useless.
Is Nepomuk/Strigi running? That sounds a lot like the Nepomuk indexer doing it's usual "it's time to index your computer so I'll eat up 110% of your system resources for a random amount of time" thing.
Good point. It wasn't when I ssh'd in after a freeze. However ... I have disabled it in system settings, but sometimes I do see it running! I have chmod'd a-x but it keeps turning back on! There seem to be two different freezes: a) menu and panel and some (but not all) dialogue boxes become sluggish even though the applications, including new starts from the command line or to handle downloads or a click on a file icon in Konqueror and the corresponding new wows are NOT sluggish. b) freeze when the tab between applications using the 'film strip' seems to freeze all of Xorg, mouse and keyboard and prevent ctl-alt-tab to a console Is there a reliable way to get rid of Nepomuk? -- A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org