Slow GUI

[Leonid Podolny]

shimi wrote:
> If you go to System Settings -> Desktop - do you have "Enable desktop
> effects" checked? If so, try to remove it.
Yes, they are.
> Try a generic video driver like vesa
I'll try it this evening.

> 
> Does your user have permissions to write to the /dev/dri/card0 character
> device?
Yes.

> Is the CPU level at single percents when you actually *do* something?
> Looking on it at idle does not count :) If not, what process occupies
> most CPU?
Yes, when I do something CPU-intensive, the CPU is at 100%, as expected.

And looking at it at idle does count -- that's exactly the problem, my
box is slow even though nothing consumes the CPU.