Resizing Konsole windows is slow

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#1

Hello,

Does anyone else have a problem with all Konsole windows being very slow to resize?

All other programs’ windows resize just fine, but with Konsole, it takes at least a couple of seconds from when I drag the window border until the window is actually resized.

Disabling desktop effects did not solve the problem, it’s still just as slow as before.

Any clues?

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Frode

#2

kde4? or kde3?

#3

:embarrassed: Sorry, KDE 4.1

(Version 4.1.2 (KDE 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1 >= 20080828)) “release 52.2”)

#4

I’m in kde3 at the moment but feel this is an issue in kde4

#5

Are you using the nvidia driver? There are known issues with it vis-a-vis Plasma, with resizing Konsole one of the specific symptoms. There is a write-up somewhere which suggests trying several changes in kwin and xorg.conf. Sorry, don’t remember and don’t have it, so you’ll have to search/google. With my card, what improved Konsole was to change kwin OpenGL to “shared memory” and add the Option “BackingStore” “true” to the Device section of xorg.conf.

#6

Thanks for your replies.

Using shared memory OpenGL mode and setting BackingStore to true didn’t work for me. Googling your suggestion, however, lead me to a thread suggestion to run the command

nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1

This removed the resize delay on Konsole for me. It’s still not 100% smooth, but at least the delay is gone.

Thanks again.

#7

Sorry, I forgot about the nvidia-settings in the xinit. I’m using those, too. Sounds like we have same card, same perf.

fyi buggy OpenGL with nvidia