[arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Thu Apr 14 18:23:44 UTC 2016


On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:52:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:37:13 +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:  
>>gtk3 since 3.18 or so got much slower as well and for each
>>and every window that is drawn it first shows a black rectangle
>>before the widgets appear.    
>[snip]
>I notice the performance issue you described for Evolution, but
>not for the GTK3 version of Roxterm [2], so it seems to depend on the
>app using GTK3, but not necessarily on GTK3.  

Oops, I'm mistaken, as soon as a Roxterm window shows a little bit
more, e.g. 'Preferences > Edit Current Profile', the black box is shown
too.


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