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flokol120

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Registered: 2020-01-02

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[SOLVED] KDE: Some programs are starting very slow

After updating my system yesterday, I noticed that some application are starting very slowly (eg. tilix, Gnome Disks, ...). If I start one of those programs the following happens:

1. A window pops up, which is just blank and is see-through (showing the content as the windows behind it (just like a screenshot))

2. Whilst this "ghost" window is up, my system is very unresponsive (but the cpu and RAM usage is just fine)

3. After about 2 minutes the program starts rendering its gui.

4. After that the program kind of works. It is very slow and unresponsive. After some time it will crash eventually.

I do not know much about those programs internals but they all seem to be using GTK if I am correct.

https://i.imgur.com/swddUXN.png

https://i.imgur.com/QqNMg5A.png

System information:

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0
Qt Version: 5.15.1
Kernel Version: 5.9.1-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 31,3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2

If you need any more information and/or logs, I am happy to provide them.

moderator edit -- replaced oversized images with links.
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Last edited by flokol120 (2020-10-21 13:22:44)

flokol120

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE: Some programs are starting very slow

So when I shut down the PC, it throwed many usb freq errors at me. I unplugged an usb webcam which was not working anyways from the PC. Now It seems to be working again. What a stupid mistake... I dont really know why only those GTK programs were affected by this but I am not going to question it Sorry if somebody already tried to help me, I am closing this for now.

Edit: Sorry for the big images.

Last edited by flokol120 (2020-10-21 13:22:02)