Yes, I have had the same experience with gnome. Besides being very slow
in the first place, I will get runaway processes in things like The Gimp,
or more simple things like you describe. No secret handshakes apply,
except the "reset" button. I have pretty well given up on Gnome and KDE
for similar reasons--bloated and slow and quirky. I find something like
Blackbox or xfce keeps things fast and less likely to run away. Of
course, Netscape will always have a chance of getting away, but I at least
can kill it with top or KPM.
Don J.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, boynblack wrote:
> Hello newbie,
>
> hey, I just went from Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1 and so far i love the
> changes. One of the things however that seem to be funky is my
> gnome. It will start the HD spinning wildly then crash my X. This
> happened three times in a row. Once when i added an app to the
> panel and the other times during routine operations. I tried
> different managers and had the same results. I even started a
> season of WM and invoked only the panel and it did the same. Has
> anyone else experienced this?
>
> I am on a PII 400 128Ram
> Voodoo 3
> system
>
>
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My dual-boot system
Works better than
my Z, and isn't as greasey.
Do good stuff!
