On Friday, October 07, 2011 04:35:57 AM Roderick Johnstone wrote:

> On 06/10/11 22:32, Armelius Cameron wrote:

> > Hello,

> >

> > I am having some issues with KDE + X + Nvidia right now, not sure which

> > one is the cause, but I am wondering if anyone here has seen the same

> > thing or if there's any workaround.

...

> >

> > 1. Kile with simple latex file would be so sluggish, X uses > 90% of CPU

> > on "top", with "kile" as the next process on the list.

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> Yes, we saw this behaviour a while back with a similar setup, F14, +

> proprietary nvidia drivers.

> One thing that seemed to work around the problems was to change the qt

> backend with something like:

> kate --graphicssystem=raster

> or

> export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=raster

> before stating kate.

Nice workaround! Kile is immediately usable now. Thanks a lot.