I have been running RedHat 7.3 for the past few weeks and I have noticed something really really annonying.
While doing practically anything in X Windows, I notice that it will often stop responding...err, only partially. The mouse will still move and the buttons will depress when clicked but nothing will happen. This lasts 1-5 seconds and then everything will resume back to normal. I have gone to click the Gnome Terminal icon at the bottom of the screen. I see it depress but nothing comes up. So I click a few more times. (All in the course of about 2-3 seconds). Then a few seconds later, 10 terminals open simulaneously. I realize the Gnome terminal isn't as compact as rxvt, but I noticed the same problem with rxvt. This things seems to happen at random intervals for random amounts of time. I am running no other programs in the background when this happens. I have a P3-450 Mhz, 256MB Ram, 40GB IDE Hard Drive. I am on a cable modem (connected directly). I have all the 'lastest' updates from the RedHat network. (If that is worth anything). I hate to say this, but I admire the "crispness" of the Windows GUI, in that as soon as you click, something begins to happen. I don't feel my computer is so slow that the same shouldn't be on Linux. I thought Linux would have had less baggage than Win2k. -Alex
