Gnome: Run Application too SLOW

paritosh_shroff · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 7

The Run Application (ALT-F2) window freezes for a couple of seconds accessing the hard drive as soon I type the first letter of the command (any) I try to run. Seems like it's trying to access some index of commands to auto-complete. It's very annoying and I land up using the drop-down menu most of the times.

Is this normal? or is there a solution for this?

I am using Gnome 2.6.

Thanks in advance for your responses!

golloza · Guru Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 427

Same here.

Athlon XP 3000+, 512MB RAM, everything else runs fine.

WarpFlyght · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Atlanta, GA

Same experience here. Athlon XP 2500+, 768MB of RAM. Identical performance whether lots of memory is available or not.

There is a thread regarding this with GNOME 2.4, so this isn't a new issue. URL below.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=139261

It sounds like somebody just needs to clean up that bit of code in GNOME. Hopefully 2.8 will show some improvements.
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