Re: E slow

[Patrick Colbeck <pat colbeck esc azlan co uk>]

On Fri Nov 20, 1998 at 11:05:32AM -0600, John R Sheets wrote:
> Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> 
> > I have just finished compiling gnome and E from CVS and they seem to work fine
> > except thatE is very slow. For example if I have two Netscape windows open it
> > takes several seconds to change focus from one to the other, or rather the
> > focus changes immediately but the graphics lag behind for several seconds. I am
> > running this on a P400 with 128Mb RAM and a Matrox G200 AGP grahics card so
> > this is a reasonably high end system. Have I got a problem or is E generally
> > just slow ?
> 
> Something's probably configured funny.  I'm running a P100 with 48 MB RAM at home,
> and E zips merrily along, even with maximum-quality rendering and opaque window
> sizing/movement.

Oh dear, well I have just ordered some Debian CDs so when I reformat my box and
install that instead of RedHat 5.1 (not that there is anything wrong with
RedHat) I will try again.  Maybe a clean install will sort it out.

Pat