RE: Looking for ways to speed up Gnome

[Benjamin FrantzDale <bfrantzdale orion ac hmc edu>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Patrick Nelson wrote:

> Lee J. wrote:
> ----------------->>>>
> 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.
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> Been a big supporter of this Nautilus development, but have decided that it
> isn't for some of my older systems.  I had not started the task of removing
> Nautilus from these systems, when I read that I can make the change in the
> post-installation wizard, which I can not seem to find.  Removing Nautilus
> isn't that important to me, as saving time with a quick wizard and I'm done
> thing.  Please where or what is this post-installation wizard?

It's Ximian Doorman. To get it to run again, run doorman-reset, or
something like that... try doing a locate doorman |grep bin to see what
the command is. Run that, then log out and back in and you'll get the
wizard.

--Ben