Subject: Re: slow GNOME
To: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.org>
From: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/16/2004 18:14:03
On Monday 16 August 2004 18:02, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've managed to install KDE 3.2.1 and it's running quite fine.
> The only thing i feel is, that i think that it is quite slow.
> Some applications are opening faster than other.
> E.g. Mozilla Firefox takes quite long to open.
> And after being opened the little jumping icon jumps for a long time until
> it disappears.
> I'm running a 1.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 /w 512MB RAM.
> Anyway. It works and thats ok.
>
> On ther other side GNOME.
> I installed GNOME 2.4.2 and finally managed it to run (exec gnome-session).
> Gnome starts (nautilus), but any application i try to open takes very very
> long or even does not open.
> At the beginning i'm also getting the message that the machine cannot
> resolve the hostname (log in anyway) which leads that the Browser does not
> open a web site.
>
> Any ideas?

My guess is like... stay with KDE3 ? :) This is what i did @first time and 
quite happy since these times..

/me hides

// wbr