Re: About performance issue when moving windows around with metacity.

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:02 +0100, Martin Holt Juliussen wrote:

> After using all of the GNOME -versions from 2.10 to 2.13 (including a
> lot of dev-versions) I have been annoyed with the fact that when I move
> windows around, it uses a lot of the CPU time. The consequence of this
> is of course that the icons of the backgrounds disappears while I am
> dragging and a lot garbage is left in other windows.

You are hitting this bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4320

There's a workaround patch for it in GTK+ in CVS.  The patch is here,
for if you want to play with it:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314616#c24

  Federico