I've tried a few different themes, including the default Ximian theme and the Simple theme, which is advertised as high performance. Nothing made much difference.
I also tried the SuSE rpm from usr-local-bin.org : No change.
I'm going to play with some other settings in the XF86 setup, but I'm not optimistic.
Paul
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:29, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
change your gtk theme to a non-pixmap theme and it will stop being so slow. Jeff On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 13:25, Paul Hands wrote: > Jeff, answers embedded........... > > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 17:00, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > Does the RENDER X extension work properly on your system? > It looks OK. The XFree86 log file shows that RENDER is loading OK, > and there are no errors regarding the extension. > > (do you get errors like "Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display > > :0.0" ?) > > > > all I know is that my laptop (p3 600 w/ 128 megs of RAM running RedHat 9 > > w/ XD2 running default setup) sounds like it runs evolution faster than > > your 2 gigahertz + 2gig of ram desktop machine, which seems a bit > > strange... no? I'll grant you that w/ 128 megs of ram and a 256 meg swap > > partition, things are not exactly snappy - but redraws and plenty fast. > It is infuriatingly slow, especially for a high spec machine. The > reason I am back with the SuSE version is that I had installed XD2 > when this all started, and I mistakenly thought going back might fix > it. That's also why I suspect that my gnome configuration is broken > somewhere. I tried a doorman-reset and also moving all my .gnome and > .gconf stuff temporarily, but no luck. > > the browser config setting thing has more to do with what arguments you > > pass to the browser command-line than a bug in GNOME. If I try to launch > > mozilla more than once on my machine from the command-line, it often > > won't let me - asking me to select a different profile. > That's the net effect. > > you probably need to do something like: mozilla --new-window > I use mozilla -remote "openurl($arg, new-window)" with some > surroundings to catch the cases where there either is or isn't a > browser already running. > > (you'd have to read up on the mozilla command-line options to know for > > sure, I was just making that one up). > > > > what other preferences "get ignored"? They all seem to work fine for > > me... > Setting file handlers just doesn't seem to work. I set the preference > for html docs to various things, including just launching a shell. No > change is effective, the system just doesn't "see" them. > > Jeff > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:32, Paul Hands wrote: > > > Jeff, > > > > > > You may well be right regarding configuration, but what in > > > particular? I suspect that something is wrong with my gnome > > > configuration in general, because I cannot get evolution to open a web > > > browser if one is already running - all my settings in > > > gnome-control-center seem to get ignored. I "fixed" it by changing > > > the mozilla script in the mozilla installation. > > > > > > So far, as you say, all responses seem to be from SuSE 8.2 users. > > > However, 1.2.2 is OK on the same setup. > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:07, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > sounds like your system is incorrectly configured. This is certainly > > > > *not* an evolution bug if it is only reproducable on SuSE 8.2 (which > > > > seems to be the case based on other responses in this thread). > > > > > > > > Make sure that hardware acceleration is working properly > > > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:27, Paul Hands wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > > > Should I submit the following as a bug? > > > > > > > > > > I'm running evolution 1.4.4 (and also the latest snaps - no > > > > > difference) on KDE 3.1 (various versions - 3.1.1, 3.1.3) on SuSE 8.2. > > > > > System is a 2Ghz IBM T30 laptop with 2G RAM, Radeon mobility graphics > > > > > adaptor, XFree86-4.3.0-15. > > > > > > > > > > The graphics performance is awful. > > > > > > > > > > Anything which causes a window redraw (without changing window sizes) > > > > > takes around 8 seconds to complete. That includes changing folders - > > > > > something which happens a lot. The redraw of the summary and preview > > > > > panes takes the most time - the folder bar needs about 3 seconds to > > > > > look complete. > > > > > > > > > > If I resize the window (main or composer) the redraw can take up to > > > > > 30 seconds. During that time, the mouse cursor is grabbed, and is > > > > > restricted to a screen area which seems to be the old size of the > > > > > window. > > > > > > > > > > If I switch into a gnome session (gnome 2.2 as supplied with the SuSE > > > > > distro) instead of KDE, graphics performance is fine. > > > > > > > > > > I don't want to start a gnome versus KDE thread here - it serves no > > > > > purpose. However, I bet a lot of evolution users are on KDE as well, > > > > > and therefore I'd like to know.............. > > > > > > > > > > 1. Is it just me, or are other KDE users seeing this. If so, what > > > > > distro etc? > > > > > 2. Is it restricted to Evolution, or are other gnome apps affected in > > > > > the same way? > > > > > > > > > > and of course, > > > > > > > > > > 3. Is it worth submitting a bug? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > > > Paul
