Unity freezes for periods of time

Question

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity.

Whenever I try to minimize or maximize any application window the UI gets struck for around 45 secs. How do I overcome this other than removing Unity?

I get this after configuring Wallpaper plugin in ccsm.

Update:

Laptop model : HP dv6

Graphics card : nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS]

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '11 at 23:57

Very frequently there's a substantial lag issue if you have an nVidia graphics card. If you don't know what card you have use lspci in terminal.

If you do have it then get into classic and update the driver to the most recent version. The difference is immediately apparent after a quick restart.

Unity freezes for periods of time

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