Re: Looking for ways to speed up Ghome

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

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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