Cinnamon - slow windows snapping

Hello
I've been using cinnamon on Arch for a long time, but yesterday I decided to install Mint on another partition. What I found out is that on Mint windows move smoothly when aproaching the edge of the screen but on Arch they extremely slow down and the edge animation is laggy. I've noticed it before but I thought that's my hardware fault (it's old). Can anyone tell what is the reason for this behavior?
Right now I'm using the newest cinnamon version on Arch (don't know what version is on Mint, but the problem occured on arch even with older versions) and nouveau drivers on both systems.
Thanks for any help
Max
Last edited by harkov (2014-05-04 11:55:02)

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UPDATE: Disconnecting router from the Internet did not help. I'm going to try and plug my PC to the modem directly later and see what happens.
UPDATE: It seems I'm on the right track. After connecting PC directly to the ISP modem the shutdown speed remained unaffected, but just for the first time. Every other shutdown and reboot have been executed three times faster! I think there might be a problem
with default gateway's MAC address, since that's one of the things that changes when switching networks. I'm going to change my router's MAC add. as soon as I get a green light from my ISP.
UPDATE: This is weird. After plugging the PC directly to my ISP modem Windows doesn't ask me whether it's a private or public network; it thinks it's my brother's network. How is this possible? We use different ISPs in different parts of the country.
FIXED. I removed a bunch of programs I haven't used for a while to free some space on C: Ventrilo and Teamspeak clients, CCleaner, Echolink, WOL Magic Packet Sender, Cobian Backup and a few others I can't remember. The problem went away.
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