[compiz] compiz and desktop slowness

[David Reveman]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 01:54 +0200, David Prieto wrote:
> Hello. I'm using compiz-vanilla, and I have noticed that it makes
> Nautilus act extremely slow on my desktop; for example, if I select
> several icons quickly the selection box becomes quite choppy, and if I
> try to move them there is a huge "lag". I noticed that Nautilus behaves
> completely normal on non-desktop windows, though, and if I replace
> compiz with metacity (metacity --replace) the desktop returns to normal.
> 
> I've posted about this issue on ubuntuforums and compiz.net and couldn't
> get any satisfactory answer... is it possible that there is a memory
> leak? How can I find out what exactly is going wrong?

Sorry, I don't know what it could be. I'm pretty sure it's not caused by
a memory leak, though. It works fine on all machines I've tried.

-David