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kouros17

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Registered: 2015-11-18

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Delay switching between tabs in appeareance

I'm using Manjaro and Arch and i have the same problem in both.
When i go to settings/appeareance and change the tab it takes a long time to be changed (for example from style to icons or fonts).
Be noted that this delay only occurs the first time.
Sometimes when I'm in a hurry it's a bit annoying.
Not a big problem of course, but I would be grateful if there was a solution.

Last edited by kouros17 (2016-03-26 14:44:32)

sixsixfive

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Re: Delay switching between tabs in appeareance

Its most likely an issue in your GTK2 theme. It probably uses the murrine/pixbuf engine or another one that is full of hacks to give it some eyecandy.

Does it still happen if you use something liightweight like Mist?

also you can try to run "xfce4-appearance-settings" directly from a terminal(maybe it will print some error messages)

Last edited by sixsixfive (2016-03-26 15:08:22)

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kouros17

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Re: Delay switching between tabs in appeareance

Thanks sixsixfive!
I've tried several themes, and icons (mist aswell) I removed some of them but nothing changed.
"xfce4-appearance-settings" from the terminal launch normally without messages.

Last edited by kouros17 (2016-03-26 16:04:10)

sixsixfive

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Re: Delay switching between tabs in appeareance

>I've tried several themes, and icons (mist aswell) I removed some of them but nothing changed.

does this happen all time or only if you launch the appearance settings from the settings window(embedded)? I notice the same delay if I launch it from the settings manager

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kouros17

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Re: Delay switching between tabs in appeareance

I have the delay either from the settings window (embedded) or the settings manager.
Τhe important is that it only happens the first time when I try to launch it (after the boot).
Αfter the first time there is no delay.

Last edited by kouros17 (2016-03-26 21:15:48)

ToZ

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Re: Delay switching between tabs in appeareance

A bug report exists for this issue. Oddly enough, I don't experience the delay on Arch.

You can also run xfsettingsd in debug mode to see if any messages of interest show up.

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kouros17

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Re: Delay switching between tabs in appeareance

ToZ and sixsixfive you are ingredible guys! Thanks a lot for info.
So if there a bug report for the issue I can live with it and maybe sometime in the future to fixed.

[giorgos@manjaro ~]$ XFSETTINGSD_DEBUG=1 xfsettingsd --replace --no-daemon
xfce4-settings(xsettings): _XSETTINGS_S0 registered on screen 0
xfce4-settings(xsettings): 31 settings changed (serial=0, len=1192)
xfce4-settings(xsettings): resource manager (xft) changed (len=181)
xfce4-settings(displays): Detected CRTC 79.
xfce4-settings(displays): Detected CRTC 80.
xfce4-settings(displays): Detected output 83 VGA-0.
xfce4-settings(displays): CRTC 79 assigned to VGA-0.
xfce4-settings(displays): CRTC 79, output list[0] -> 83.
xfce4-settings(displays): Total 1 active output(s).
xfce4-settings(displays): Normalized CRTC 79: size=1920x1080, pos=0x0.
xfce4-settings(displays): min_h = 200, min_w = 320, max_h = 16384, max_w = 16384, prev_h = 1080, prev_w = 1920, prev_hmm = 285, prev_wmm = 508, h = 1080, w = 1920, hmm = 286, wmm = 508.
xfce4-settings(displays): Applying desktop dimensions: 1920x1080 (px), 508x286 (mm).
xfce4-settings(displays): Configuring CRTC 79.
xfce4-settings(displays): Configuring CRTC 80.
xfce4-settings(pointers): initialized xi 2.3
xfce4-settings(keyboards): initialized xkb 1.0
xfce4-settings(keyboards): set auto repeat on
xfce4-settings(keyboards): set key repeat (delay=500, rate=50)
xfce4-settings(keyboards): set numlock off
xfce4-settings(accessibility): AccessXKeys disabled
xfce4-settings(accessibility): stickykeys disabled
xfce4-settings(accessibility): slowkeys disabled
xfce4-settings(accessibility): bouncekeys disabled
xfce4-settings(accessibility): mousekeys disabled
xfce4-settings(keyboard-shortcuts): 14 shortcuts loaded
xfce4-settings(fontconfig): monitoring 65 paths
xfce4-settings(workspaces): 1 desktop names set from xfconf