Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-27 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 04:12, John Hasler wrote: > Patrick Kirk wrote: > Having settled on xfce, evolution and galeon, performance is fine. Many thanks to all that made suggestions. Patrick

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-26 Thread John Hasler
Patrick Kirk wrote: | Slightly OT, I wonder am I losing anything in terms of functionality or | performance by running Evolution Galeon and other gnom-ish apps under | XFCE as opposed to under Gnome proper? I assume that by "Gnome proper" you mean the "Gnome Desktop Environment"? No. -- John Ha

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:29:37PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: | Slightly OT, I wonder am I losing anything in terms of functionality or | performance by running Evolution Galeon and other gnom-ish apps under | XFCE as opposed to under Gnome proper? GNOME apps run in the GNOME environment. You c

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 19:28, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > [snip] > > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip] > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and > > xfwm (www.xfce.org). Tr

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and > xfwm (www.xfce.org). Try it: I'm sure you'll like it. > > Have fun. I'm trying it now. The ov

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Michael Epting
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Tried mc. I don't like it. Konqueror is a great file manager. GMC is > OK but it keeps asking how to open text files which seems an odd thing > to need to configure. Are there other light file managers? I love emelfm. It does ever

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks to all who pointed out ways forward. > > I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. > > It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating > systems by using kde and gnome apps inte

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread ben
On Thursday 21 February 2002 02:30 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] > Tried mc. I don't like it. Konqueror is a great file manager. GMC is > OK but it keeps asking how to open text files which seems an odd thing > to need to configure. Are there other light file managers? > try all the others you

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread csj
On 21 Feb 2002 22:30:53 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. If you want that light, blackbox looks much better. > It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating > systems by using kde and gno

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Joe Buck
> My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. > I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for > web and evolution for mail. > Performance is appalling. Konqueror takes 13 seconds to launch. Galeon > takes 10 seconds. Evoluti

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 21 Feb 2002 22:30:53 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all who pointed out ways forward. > > I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. > > It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating > systems by using kde and gnome

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks to all who pointed out ways forward. I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating systems by using kde and gnome apps interchangably on Enlightenment. That's sad. I like Evolution. In order to

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 15:42, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. This should be ok; when I wrote my thesis, half of the time I was editing on a much smaller machine than that, but you do have to be careful about

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 21 Feb 2002 20:42:04 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. > > I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for > web and evolution for mail. > > Performance i

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:42:04PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: | Hi all, | | My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 | celeron processor. Either you have a PII or a Celeron, but not both in one chip. | I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi all, > > My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. > > I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for > web and evolution for mail. > > Performance is appalling. Konquero

Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 celeron processor. I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for web and evolution for mail. Performance is appalling. Konqueror takes 13 seconds to launch. Galeon takes 10 seconds. Evolution