Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-19 Thread Irv Mullins
On Fri, 18 May 2001, dfox wrote: I wrote: If I open all programs I am going to use, then switching between them seems reasonably fast. However, if one of them needs to open a new window, Does this happen independently of how many windows are already open, or what window manager is being

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-18 Thread Civileme
On Thursday 17 May 2001 10:34, Paul wrote: It was Thu, 17 May 2001 11:53:35 -0500 when Chubby Vic wrote: Perhaps time to look for another window manager? Paul Dang, they must be a bunch of mean old buttfaces who don't want to help anyone, why did they do that? On Thursday 17 May 2001

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-18 Thread Irv Mullins
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave wrote: Well, it's still strange -- my ThinkPad is a 300MHz Celeron with 64 MB RAM, and it runs both KDE 2 and Gnome just fine. Your system should be able to do as well, from a hardware standpoint. Is it possible that even though the correct X driver is installed,

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-18 Thread Dave Sherman
I just thought of another possibility. The X windows server, at least in certain cases, will try to resolve the domain and IP of a host making a request (in other words, it does a DNS lookup). Are you connected to a network? I have run into terrible slow-downs when I lose a network connection

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-17 Thread Irv Mullins
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Ari Dias wrote: Hello people, I have a question! Why my linux mandraki 8.0 is so slowly that i cant use it! i have a k6 500mhz!!! tks I had the same problem, KDE was so slow that I couldn't get any work done. When I posted this to the KDE list, all I got was flames, but

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-17 Thread Chubby Vic
Dang, they must be a bunch of mean old buttfaces who don't want to help anyone, why did they do that? On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:11 am, so spoke Irv Mullins: I had the same problem, KDE was so slow that I couldn't get any work done. When I posted this to the KDE list, all I got was flames, but

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-17 Thread Irv Mullins
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave wrote: I ran into a similar problem with Mandrake 7.2. The problem/solution turned out to be that Mandrake had detected and chosen a generic X video driver for my video card, but that generic driver worked very poorly with my card. Once I changed to the proper

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-17 Thread Paul
It was Thu, 17 May 2001 11:53:35 -0500 when Chubby Vic wrote: Perhaps time to look for another window manager? Paul Dang, they must be a bunch of mean old buttfaces who don't want to help anyone, why did they do that? On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:11 am, so spoke Irv Mullins: I had the same

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-17 Thread uli
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: [newbie] very slowly Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:59:03 +0200 From: uli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Irv Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2001 18:11 schrieben Sie: On Thu, 17 May 2001, Ari Dias wrote: Hello people, I have

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Sherman
Well, it's still strange -- my ThinkPad is a 300MHz Celeron with 64 MB RAM, and it runs both KDE 2 and Gnome just fine. Your system should be able to do as well, from a hardware standpoint. Is it possible that even though the correct X driver is installed, the video settings (refresh rate,