Re: gnome 2.14 performance

[Hans Nieser <h nieser xs4all nl>]

Arno Schleich wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> after installing gnome 2.14 on freebsd-6.0 (stable) i noticed marked
> performance degradation (e. g. slower than an XP desktop) of gnome and
> all gnome based applications (screensaver almost takes 30 seconds to pop
> up). what is this due to and how can it be amended ? and, yes, I use the
> newest versiona, and yes all ports have been upgraded when gnome 2.14
> was installed and np, other desktops like xfce4 do not show this grossly
> reduced performance.
> 
> thanks, Arno

You might want to have a look at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.gnome/20259

Many people have experienced the same problem as you, and for most the
solution in the mail I linked seemed to solve it.

Hope this helps,

Hans