Re: Looking for ways to speed up Ghome
- From: jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>
- To: ShadowWalker Delaforge <shadwalk operamail com>
- Cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Looking for ways to speed up Ghome
- Date: 18 Oct 2001 13:49:38 -0400
On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 13:14, ShadowWalker Delaforge wrote:
> Hi all: Newbie to linux here. I'm looking for ways to speed up Gnome.
> Currently I'm using it on a 266, with 192 megs memory. On this machine,
> Windows is just fine, however Gnome is very sluggish. For example, Opera takes
> almost 30 seconds to load, while on Windows, it takes barely 2 seconds.
this is because opera doesn't use most of the libraries you already have
in memory (gnome ones).
> On loading things (Like applets) it can take a minute or more before the
> applet activates. Like the gnome weather applet. I click on it, and it'll take
> between 1 - 2 minutes to pop up a menu. Is it a java app? Certain programs are
> incredlbey slow.
the weather applet blocks during network transfers. are there other
applets that you have the same problem with?
jacob
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