Re: Looking for ways to speed up Ghome

["Lee J." <mlist strictlybritish com>]

On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 18:14, 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.
> 
> 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.[..]

Hi,

I doubt it should be quite *that* slow.  Just a couple of things I want
to mention (I'm not addressing the whole of your message).

Make sure you're using GMC for the desktop and *not* Nautilus.  In
Ximian Gnome, you can do this from the post-installation wizard.  GMC is
a *lot* faster.  In fact I'd recommend removing nautilus altogether if
this does make a difference.

I suspect in Control Center/Settings/Session Properties & Startup, you
might have 'Automatically save changes to session' selected.  IIRC this
loads everything that was running the last time you shut down Gnome. 
Even those apps in the background that you might not have properly
terminated may be relaunched every time you log into Gnome.  Uncheck
this box, click apply and from a terminal delete the file
~/.gnome/session (del ~/.gnome/session).

If that was part of the problem, you should notice a difference after
you restart.

Best of luck :)

Lee J.