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I have a PC with Ubuntu 11.04 and a Debian Squeeze chroot installed in it.

As soon as I start any KDE application from within chroot (and installed there), e.g. Kompare for viewing git diff output, certain parts of the whole host system become slow to respond.

For example:

  • The keyboard layout tray icon stops working, e.g. doesn't change layouts on click.
  • The logout/restart/shutdown actions take a long time to actually start, e.g. 5 minutes or more, while doing sudo reboot is instantaneous.
  • Open/save file dialogs are slow to open and close, and sometimes even unresponsive.

I've noticed that other non-KDE native applications like Eclipse, xli, meld don't have the same problems.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might cause it?

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are the plasma widgets locked? sometimes having them unlocked it slows everything down i.stack.imgur.com/TtW2K.jpg – rubo77 Oct 28 '12 at 14:49
I had them unlocked, so I tried locking them, but I didn't see any change though. – marcio Oct 29 '12 at 8:25

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