Bug 351141 - switching desktop makes pager redraw itself with one second long delay
Summary: switching desktop makes pager redraw itself with one second long delay
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Pager (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7CX...
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Reported: 2015-08-09 22:46 UTC by Martin Bukatovič
Modified: 2016-09-07 11:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Martin Bukatovič 2015-08-09 22:46:34 UTC
When I use plasmashell 5 with Xmonad windown manager instead of kwin, switching desktop or window makes pages redraw itself with one second long delay. Previous plasma shell from KDE 4 doesn't have this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with fresh KDE configuration
2. Install Xmonad (fedora package: xmonad)
3. Clone my xmonad config repository (https://github.com/marbu/xmonad) into ~/.xmonad and configure Xmonad/KDE integration as described in the README file 
4. Login into plasma shell again and check that Xmonad integration is working
5. Try to switch desktops, open multiple windows on at least one desktop

Actual Results:  
When I switch desktop or change active window focus, pager redraws itself with noticeable one second delay during which there is nothing to be seen on the part of the screen where pager belongs.

Expected Results:  
Pager redraws itself fast enough for me (or any other human) to not notice anything.

This is not related to the computing power of the machine, I see this issue both on quite old one (9 year's old laptop) and on brand new workstation.

Previous version KDE 4 Plasma doesn't have this issue and everything works smoothly without any problem.
Comment 1 Martin Bukatovič 2015-08-14 22:36:19 UTC
Additional note: version of xmonad is 0.11 (as packaged in Fedora 22).
Comment 2 Viacheslav Ostroukh 2016-04-08 18:47:51 UTC
Confirm for me, Xmonad 0.12, Plasma 5.5.5, Gentoo stable. Pager redraws in nearly a second.
Comment 3 gavrilovp 2016-05-14 21:58:28 UTC
It's important for me as well. Xmonad 0.12, plasma 5.6.4, archlinux.
Comment 4 Eike Hein 2016-09-07 11:21:18 UTC
This should be fixed with the Pager rewrite in 5.8.