How to disable icon fetching in dashboard's search? (increasing performance idea)
There seems to be lag whenever I start typing something in dashboard search, looking for an application. This could potentially be very fast, like typing Win "dwar" enter, runs dwarf fortress. But there's a lag while typing "dwar", starting on the letter "d".
I believe this lag is caused by the system fetching the icons. I'd like to disable this function and have the dashboard be text-only.
Note: the hud only has to show one icon at a time and look how much faster that is? It must be the icons.
Suggestions?
edit: Note that I'm currently running Ubuntu 2D.
1 Answer
You can not disable icons at the moment, unless you want to delete all your icon sets (you dont). But icons arent what is slowing your dash. The main cause is the blur in the background of the dash, that can cause a second of lag. Through compiz config (ccsm) you can disable blur, or set it to static.
Disabling blur makes the dash faster, but it can make reading the dash text difficult. Static blur is again faster than active blur, the only difference is that the image behind the dash doesn't change (example if a popup appears awhile the dash is open, you won't see it appear behind.
I highly recommended you try the blur options. Also use 12.04, unity is much faster! Unity 2D also offers a nice speed boost.
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