KDE 3.2 experimental seems sluggish

2004-02-25 Thread James D. Freels
Excuse me if this is a FAQ.  I am mostly pleased with the experimental
debs of KDE3.2 made available recently.  Thanks goes to the individuals
involved.

I have noticed that the graphical performance seems sluggish.  By this I
mean when switching from one virtual window to another (example ctrl-F1,
ctrl-F2, etc.), the time to see the new screen is on the order of a few
seconds whereas under KDE3.1.5, it was less than a second.  This machine
has plenty of memory.  Indeed, the swap space has not been touched.

-- 
James D. Freels, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: KDE 3.2 experimental seems sluggish

2004-02-25 Thread David Bishop

I was disappointed with the speed of 3.2, until I cleaned up my config files.  
On one machine, where I had little personal data, I copied out the bookmarks 
file, mv'ed my .kde to .kde.bak, and relogged in.  On the other, I just went 
through and deleted every rc file in .kde/share/config that was for an app I 
didn't care about.  I also deleted all caches, empty directories, and etc.  I 
do *not* recommend this approach for someone who doesn't know exactly what 
they're doing, though B-)  In both cases, I immediately saw a big speed 
improvement, not only in logging in and switching desktops, but also in 
konqueror and kmail.  It's kinda crappy that kde doesn't seem to upgrade 
well, but thems the breaks...

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:17 pm, James D. Freels wrote:
 Excuse me if this is a FAQ.  I am mostly pleased with the experimental
 debs of KDE3.2 made available recently.  Thanks goes to the individuals
 involved.

 I have noticed that the graphical performance seems sluggish.  By this I
 mean when switching from one virtual window to another (example ctrl-F1,
 ctrl-F2, etc.), the time to see the new screen is on the order of a few
 seconds whereas under KDE3.1.5, it was less than a second.  This machine
 has plenty of memory.  Indeed, the swap space has not been touched.

 --
 James D. Freels, Ph.D.
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-- 
D.A.Bishop