On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:22 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in addition to boot and activity load time the time it takes to switch
between applications is also a little frustrating - especially for
kids who have worked on faster computers.
This should have been improved in the 8.2
Hi Elana,
you have brought a very needed point of view to this list. Let me try
to start the process of translating your experience to actionable
items.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, elana langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Computers are slow - So I was in a Ger in the west part of Mongolia
in addition to boot and activity load time the time it takes to switch
between applications is also a little frustrating - especially for
kids who have worked on faster computers.
I am in Mongolia for the next few weeks. There are several schools in
the city that have computers so if you want any
Hey Elana,
One thing which you can do to improve activity switching performance is
to run xcompmgr (X composite manager). This prevents the activities
from burning CPU time redrawing themselves every time they are switched
to by persistently caching the video memory used by each window. The
I've just confirmed activity switching performance is improved by using
xcompmgr.
Environment: XO C2 with build 763 (on a random laptop), with Firefox
activity, Terminal activity and Journal activity all active, with
Firefox displaying a reasonably complex web page, with a copy of
