I use Merkaartor on my laptop and are happy with the speed. Its a C++ app so appears more responsive than JOSM on my laptop.
http://www.merkaartor.org/ There are packages for ubuntu or you can compile from source if you have the Qt libraries installed. Evan On Thursday 27 Aug 2009 11:00:29 Sam Couter wrote: > Cosmic Charade <cosmichar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I use Ubuntu with xfce so a similar setup but it runs like a dog on > > mine for some reason.... maybe I installed the wrong version of Java > > or I need to run with some command line options? > > My laptop is lower powered than yours and JOSM works okay. You need the > Sun JRE, it won't work with OpenJDK. The only command line options I use > are to set the HTTP proxy. > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au