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SilentSam

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Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 39

KDE 4.14.3 - Lancelot animations very choppy and slow

First, the package list:

[anon@anon ~]$ pacman -Q | grep plasma
kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons 4.13-3
kdebase-plasma 15.04.3-1
[anon@anon ~]$ pacman -Q | grep lancelot
kdeplasma-addons-applets-lancelot 4.14.3-5

When I first log in and open lancelot, the animations are very choppy and slow (extremely noticeable). This happens regardless of whether compositing is enabled or not.

The really strange part is that I can make lancelot behave smoothly by killing the process and relaunching it.

As a temporary fix, I've put the following script in ~/.kde4/Autostart/

#!/bin/bash

kill $(ps -ef | grep lancelot | awk 'BEGIN{RS="@"};{print $2}')
lancelot

I'd really like to figure out why this is happening...

I've attempted to wrap the binary using a script and output logging to /var/log, but no useful output came from that.

Has anyone experienced this?

It isn't happening on my other Arch / KDE4 install on another tower, and the tower experiencing this bug has an OpenSuse install on it running KDE4, also not experiencing this issue.

Any clues?