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    Unhappy Gnome-appearance-properties using 100% CPU

    Hi all

    I have a problem. After opening the appearance menu, I get about 10 instances of gnome-appearance-properties running. They are using 100% of my CPU.
    Also I have issues with applying themes - when I select a new theme, it does not update correctly(if at all). All but 3 or 4 have question marks over them.

    The same can be said for all the window borders etc all have "?" over their preview images.

    Any ideas as to what my problem could be?

    I've deleted all the themes in ~/.themes and ~/.icons.
    Last edited by rudihawk; September 28th, 2008 at 08:10 AM. Reason: Spelling

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    Re: Gnome-appearance-properties using 100% CPU

    This isn't much help but I had this happen once and had to reboot to clear it. There seem to be too many interactions between applications such as Evolution and Pidgin and Nautilus so just restarting X doesn't always clear low level cruft.

    Thus I now use Fluxbox.

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    Re: Gnome-appearance-properties using 100% CPU

    Hmmm, thanks for that. I tried fluxbox a day or two ago, but it just felt a bit unintuative.

    I'll give xfce a bash as well and see how it goes.

    Last night i deleted everything except the "Human" theme from /usr/share/themes and now it seems as if it has sorted itself out.

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    Re: Gnome-appearance-properties using 100% CPU

    Quote Originally Posted by rudihawk View Post
    all have "?" over their preview images.
    This happened to me a few months ago. See

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=818089

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    Re: Gnome-appearance-properties using 100% CPU

    Thanks, I'll check it out.

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