Bug 222313

Summary:	desktop freezes on slideshow wallpaper change
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Marek Aaron Sapota <projects.gg.aaron>
Component:	wallpaper-image	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	asraniel, kde, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Marek Aaron Sapota 2010-01-12 00:18:17 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

With compositing enabled desktop becomes unresponsive while changing the wallpaper.

Comment 1 Nicolas L. 2010-06-08 00:49:53 UTC

do you reproduce with kde 4.4.4 or 4.5beta ?

Comment 2 Marek Aaron Sapota 2010-06-09 19:59:56 UTC

Yes, movies still stop/slow down when wallpaper changes.  I've tested it on 4.4.4.

Comment 3 John Florian 2010-08-19 16:27:24 UTC

I'm also having this problem on one system but not the other and can perhaps add some vital detail.  Both systems have nVidia cards and both use the nv driver.

One has desktop effects enabled and works great (no delay in wallpaper transitions, no excessive CPU load).

The other system cannot use desktop effects because it's a 3-head system and transitions there typically take 5-10 seconds and cause all other processes to suffer intensely as the load spikes during that time.

I'd be most happy to just have an option to disable the fade effect.  It's nice where it works well, but it's a pain elsewhere.  I assume it must have something to do with hardware acceleration or the lack thereof.

Comment 4 Beat Wolf 2010-09-08 21:16:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 209152 ***