Bug#643712: general: GNOME or GTK tabs are very slow

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 643712 gnome
thanks

On Mittwoch, 28. September 2011, David Rogers wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> For the last two days any GNOME or GTK program that I run that has tabs
> (e.g. gedit, nautilus, Iceweasel etc) have become very slow to open new
> tabs, switch between tabs or close tabs. Nautilus and Iceweasel work with
> no slow down at all as long as I don't open more than one tab (as both
> won't show the tab bar if there is only one tab) but gedit is always slow
> as the tab bar is always shown.
> 
> I tested if this was isolated to GTK or GNOME by using a qt program I have
> installed with video4fuze which has no slow down when switching tabs (I
> can't open or close them in that program).
> 
> I'm not sure what package upgrade caused this. I'm running Debian Wheezy
> amd64.
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash