rich wrote: > > Howdy all, > > I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform > relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While > WP8 under W98, I can hold the "page down" key for 5 seconds, and when I > let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, > however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen > pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can > adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 > just not as well-designed?
you might want to check the x server settings - the acceleration should be turned on. other than that it might be just poorly implemented application - is it sluggish for one app only or for everything? or poorly accelerated x... erik