(SOLVED) Alt+Tab switching very slow in new install.

[besonian]

Yesterday I did a clean install of the latest - 2010.1. And very nice it is too. Love it. The only query I have is this - I use Alt+Tab to cycle through the programs on any one workspace. It is very slow - takes about two seconds to bring up the box with the icons in, and another two to go to the program I want. With the previous version of Phoenix both were pretty-well instantaneous. In addition to that, moving between four workspaces is also slow. Whether I simply click on the appropriate window space in the panel or use the Ctrl+F1/F2 etc to go from one to the other, then provided there is a program in the workspace I'm going to, it's taking just over three seconds to do the switch! If I'm going to a workspace which, currently, has no program in it, it's instantaneous as with the previous version.

Is there some setting I've missed here? Some configuration I should have done and haven't?

System - MSI mobo, AMD Sempron 3800+ 64 dual CPU, 2gb RAM, 500gb SATA drive, Nvidia Geforce 6600. No other OS installed.

[besonian]

Ooooer! Now then, Sproggy. I downloaded the Xfce Desktop ISO from pclinuxos.com. It was dated April this year - but looking at it again on the site I see it doesn't have a .1 after it. I'm sorry about that - I really don't know where my head's been. Anyway, that was what I installed. Where does that leave me and my problem?? 

[menotu]

Just a thought besonian - have you done any updates that may of required a reboot/restart ?

Sometimes that can make a difference. (I'm not an xfce user so I can't point you to any settings)

[Joble]

I don't recall ever having alt-tab in Phoenix.  How did you set that up?

[Joble]

Thx.  I'll try that when I get home.

[besonian]

Menotu - thank you for the thought, but it was a clean install and having done that I immediately did a complete update and reboot.

[besonian]

OK - I've solved this. For a reason I can't now recall, I rebooted a few minutes ago. During the boot I got a message about a file check needed on my /home partition. I ran fsck /dev/thatpartiion (using the live CD and unmounting the partition) and I found a severely corrupted file system. So much so that it took a good five minutes or more of clicking on the 'y' key to get it done. I didn't understand the detail of what it was doing (mostly to do with inodes in various guises)  but the system was clearly well up the pictures. How that can be I don't know - or is the drive on its way out? I'll keep a check on it. Anyway, the result is that everything I complained about when I started this thread has now righted itself. It all happens virtually instantaneously once more. Thank you to everybody that put their two-cents worth in to this. And if anybody's got any idea how a file system on a /home partition can get that messed up, I'd be interested to hear.

[Was_Just19]

Thank you to everybody that put their two-cents worth in to this. And if anybody's got any idea how a file system on a /home partition can get that messed up, I'd be interested to hear.

Most common cause is an unclean shutdown.

[besonian]

JohnBoy - Yes, I've had that a few times when the screen's frozen and even Skinny Elephants wouldn't thaw it out -  I've had to press the Reset button then had to use fsck to sort the file system out. But I've never encountered one as messed up as this was - and it was my /home partition. When I've had that in the past it's always been the / partition. I'll keep a watch on it.