Re: Is it just me, or is E (and gnome) SLOW!

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 02:31:56PM -0400, Jesse D . Sightler wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:31:40 Ronald de Man wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 12:12:02PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Devin Butterfield wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone noticed this problem?
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for how to deal with this...how to
> > > > speed things up a little??
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Doesn't seem slow here on a P233. There are two special cases of slowness
> > > recently noted: 1) if apps hang on startup they are fooling with esound 
> > > 2) if you have an 8-bit display Imlib can take a long time to dither
> > > pixmaps. Both of these are being fixed.
> > 
> > Maybe it depends on the definition of slowness. But in my experience
> > moving around windows in E is very sluggish. That's on a P233 as well.
> > On equivalent computers running Windows 95, moving around windows is
> > much smoother. For a while I thought it must be X. But a few weeks ago
> > I was helping out a friend on a P75 running fvwm2 (stock RH 4.2)
> > and it was incredibly smooth.
> 
> It is definately your X server.  Apparantly the X server that you are using
> doesn't support all of the acceleration features for your card.  This is a 
> frequent problem with XFree86, although it is drastically better than it used
> to be (and continueing to improve quickly).
> 
> But basically, if the X server isn't really taking advantage of the hardware
> accelaration, it doesn't matter how fast the computer is, it WILL be slow.

It's not my X server. My video card is a Matrox Millennium II whose
acceleration is well supported by the XF86_SVGA server.
I know that I'm comparing apples with oranges, but moving windows around
in Windows just feels faster. And fvwm95 (not fvwm2 as I wrote earlier)
on that P75 felt the same.

> 
> E does seem slower than some other Window Managers, though, even at things
> like window dragging.  But I can't complain, because multitasking is still
> smoother than Win98 and drastically more stable.  And E is just so much nicer
> to look at.  :)

I would never want to switch away from Linux. 

Ronald