Hi again, I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu. Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most useful outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both things at the same time.
Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Todd Denniston < todd.dennis...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil> wrote: > Jose Quesada wrote, On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM: > > update: using branches does not help. > > Moving around in a large doc (example: userGuide) is sluggy too. Weird. > This > > must be something in my config... > > I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same > problem. > > The problem is that moving the cursor (not even typing, as usersGuide is > > read-only) takes a long time, maybe .5 sec per character. Doesn't feel > > speedy... compared with a small doc, where it flies. > > Best, > > -Jose > > > > FYI CentOS 5.4, LyX 1.6.5 from EPEL > With Outline closed, LyX works nice and fast, with Outline open, I feel a > slight slowdown even on a > dual Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.83GHz, with 2GB of ram, on slower/smaller machines > (dual Xeon(TM) CPU @ 1.50GHz > .5GB) I have to keep it closed except when needed. > > > For rearranging the document though, the new (since 1.4) outline mode is > tremendously helpful. > > > -- > Todd Denniston > Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) > Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter >
