On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 20:42 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
  Spending that much clockcycles on screen redraws of
bland widgets just
 ain't sane anymore. Ohh, and I forgot: I even have a graphics card on
 top with computational power exceeding that of the Cray2 by a factor of
 four ... Still feels like my Linux desktop will be forever stuck on pear
 with that of a Spectrum-48 :-/ 
Let me guess.... Nvidia?  Proprietary drivers?
-dr