[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#766819: cinnamon freezes for a minute or so, when opening images or text with gnome/gtk apps and when closing them later on

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey Margarita.

>This was
>running Ubuntu Trusty, so no systemd involved at all.

I don't think that systemd had anything to do with this, apart from
that it enabled my openafs-client automagically, which I've had
disabled.


> It turned out that what was happening was that every time
> a file was opened or closed, the recently-used.xbel file was
> read by cinnamon and for some reason that caused cinnamon
> to freeze. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a copy of the offending
> recently-used.xbel file, so it's hard to know WHAT is there that
> is causing this.

>The next time this happens to you, please do the following:
>$ mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-3.0
>$ echo -e "[Settings]\ngtk-recent-files-max-age=0\ngtk-recent-files
->limit=0" > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
>$ cp ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel /tmp/
>$ rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Well I'll try to remember this, but to be honest, I haven't seen the
issue in quite a while (probably also since I don't need to use AFS
that often anymore).
But if I stumble over it again, I'll do that.


At least, recently-used.xbel sounds like a good candidate, as it's
probably read by all gnome-like programs.


If you want, you could however simply close that issue, until someone
observes it more clearly again.


Cheers,
Chris.