Cinnamon panel very slow and settings won't open

As the title says any action that has to do with the panel in Cinnamon is very slow, ie. opening the menu takes 10+secs and even then it is unresponsive. I started cinnamon with "exec gnome-session-cinnamon" through slim.
Also trying to open cinnamon-settings outputs the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 330, in <module>
MainWindow()
File "/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 124, in __init__
mod = modules[i].Module(self.content_box)
File "/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py", line 163, in __init__
gclient = gconf.client_get_default()
NameError: global name 'gconf' is not defined
Update: Cinnamon2d is a little faster but still below what I'd call acceptable, especially since it worked fine in Mint.
Last edited by Chrishas (2013-03-25 11:45:58)

The solution suggested in this post worked in opening cinnamon-settings:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160165
In /usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/bin/SettingsWidgets.py uncomment the import gconf line.

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