Hi, I sent this as bug as: Bugzilla Bug 134625: Gnome extremely slow after aplication crash, but without results. The bug remains NEW. I think current problem is somewhat related to 134625. I've noticed that Gnome apps (e.g. fonts preferences, laptop battery applet, gnome-panel, but other also) hangs quite frequently. Then the window of application stalls and the only way is to click on Closw WIndow button, wait for confirmation requester and select: Yes I want to quit/kill this app. After that, Gnome is extremely slow in running other apps about one minute. After that the Gnome works normal. Darek Borkowski