Yast Applications - Busy Mouse Cursor - takes forever to go

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#1

The YAST Control Center opens instantly BUT…

opening YAST utilities causes the pointer to become a busy one and stays there for 7-10 seconds - AFTER, the initial checks w/ the progress bars (starting the software manager window if using “package manager”, or initializing user & group information window if using “User and Group Management.”)

My box is quite fast - quad 2.4 w/ 4gb ram. No matter if I had previously opened a YAST util, the time it takes from when I first click the utility to the time the busy cursor disappears is still around 7-10 seconds. The application appears to have been loaded completely, but that darn busy cursor is still there.

I know the utilities can be used with the busy cursor, but I’d like to know why it takes so long for it to go away.

Anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions?

#2

Try opening it in a terminal and see what output its giving

#3

Interesting -> This behavior only occurs when the utility is run from the Yast Control Center

running

/sbin/yast2 sw_single

in a terminal as root causes the utility to popup quick, and no busy pointer. But starting up YAST, and then Software Management causes the busy cursor to stay for about 10 seconds.

No terminal output.

Is this a bug?

Also want to mention that this behavior occurs on ALL YAST programs I’ve tried.

#4

acompw wrote:

>
> The YAST Control Center opens instantly BUT…
>
> opening YAST utilities causes the pointer_to_become_a_busy_one and
> stays there for 7-10 seconds - AFTER, the initial checks w/ the
> progress bars (-starting the software manager- window if using
> “package manager”, or -initializing user & group information- window
> if using “User and Group Management.”)
>
> My box is quite fast - quad 2.4 w/ 4gb ram. No matter if I had
> previously opened a YAST util, the time it takes from when I first
> click the utility to the time the busy cursor disappears is still
> around 7-10 seconds. The application appears to have been loaded
> completely, but that darn busy cursor is still there.
>
> I know the utilities can be used with the busy cursor, but I’d like to
> know why it takes so long for it to go away.
>
>
>
> Anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions?
>
>

Have a look in /home/<user-name>/.kde4/share/config/klaunchrc

you should see something like:

<<–snip–>>

[BusyCursorSettings]
Blinking=false
Bouncing=true
Timeout=10

[FeedbackStyle]
BusyCursor=true
TaskbarButton=true

[TaskbarButtonSettings]
Timeout=10

<<–pins–>>

You can change the timeout settings here so that the cursor and taskbar notification does not last so long.

HTH

–
Mark…

Nil illegitimi carborundum

#5

Good reply, I also found you can change those settings in Configure Desktop>Desktop>Launch Feedback from the main menu. It gives a good help article on what its all about too.

#6

I’m running GNOME

Also, the proposed solutions don’t actually solve the problem I’m having - they’re hacks & something should be done about this. Can anyone else confirm they’re experiencing the same behavior?

#7

acompw wrote:

>
> I’m running GNOME

Ah you should have said in first post :slight_smile:

Sorry don`t do Gnome.

Also, the proposed solutions don’t actually solve the problem I’m
having - they’re hacks & something should be done about this. Can
anyone else confirm they’re experiencing the same behavior?

They are not hacks these are alterations that have been around for years and are included in the desktop settings precisely for that reason.

HTH

–
Mark…

Nil illegitimi carborundum

#8

Then, simply - why does the busy cursor remain so long when accessing it from YAST but not when I access the application from the terminal?

#9

Did a clean 11.1 install, same thing

#10

Behavior does not occur when Install Software is clicked from Computer menu