On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Shankar Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>Hey,
> I'm running Lyx 1.0.0 on an old IBM PS/2 Model 56, with Slackware
>kernel 2.0.35 modified for MCA, X, and KDE running. The machine has 16
>MB of RAM and 50 megs of swap space, a 486SX processor, and an XGA-2
>card with a 9524 monitor. My problem is essentially that Lyx
The problem is in KDE. It needs a better machine than 486/16MB
Try using some less resources demanding windowmanager, such as
iceWM.
> I heard that klyx is faster on machines with Qt installed.
>However, despite the fact that every web site I've seen claims that klyx
>and KDE are distributed in binary form for generic linux machines, I
>have yet to find a single tar.gz file for klyx or any version of KDE
I'm pretty sure ftp.kde.org contains all the needed packages
in source. As a matter a fact, I'm using self-compiled source
distribution, v1.1.1. But be aware - compilation took 6 hours
on my p166/128mb
[...]
I'd suggest using IceWM (check freshmeat.net)
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