GTK based apps slow? [Solved]

[msdobrescu]

Hello,

It might be a cohincidence, but I've noticed GTK-based apps becoming slow lately.
I have KDE, no Gnome (I'm a bit scared to install Gnome, last time it started with KDE in parallel) and some GTK libs installed as dependencies.
I mainly use Firefox and EasyTag. They become very slow. EasyTag scans twice when I enter a directory, Firefox does everything slow (might be the plugins as well, but it worked fine before). I can watch Gimp creating a new empty small picture and moving it from the top-left corner to the middle of the Gimp's area. Thebrush remains far behind the mouse pointer. Inkscape takes 5 seconds to maximize its window (with the default empty document).

The CPU is at maximum 36% and the memory at 1.7 GB of 6 GB at most.

Am I alone?

Regards, Mike.

[BoeroBoy]

Could you give some more details about your system? What kernel are you using, etc? I had a similar problem after upgrading to kernel 3.3.

[msdobrescu]

Now it seems OK.
At the time I've had 3.3 or 3.4.
The system is i7 920, 6gb ram, nvidia 560Ti, several WD RE of 1TB, Audigy Player, Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5.

[BoeroBoy]

If you can boot into something < 3.3, give it a try next time you have problems. I'm just sticking with 3.2 for now.

[msdobrescu]

For me this is not an option.
I use a tv tuner that needs > 3.3.