Rather than looking at kde/gnome, you might get better results by changing the xserver priority. There were some threads on the forums in the past on this with good results. Some have also reported that compiling xfree (and xorg) with -Os can make a big difference to x/x apps, but I suspect that it would only help startup, and be very detrimental to continuous processing such as movie playback.
You mention snappier menus etc - this is indicative that you do not have enough resources to go around - if you up the priority for these actions, what is going to happen to your playback? Moving to Kernel 2.6 with the appropriate scheduler may help here if you are still using 2.4. - 2.4 is ultimately "faster" in terms of work processed, but 2.6 is much more responsive to desktop actions. As a gnome user, I would also like to add to the other reply you got from a kde user. gnome/kde are both resource hogs, and on older HW you *WILL* need to go to a lighter window manager to get decent performance. I have used fluxbox successfully where gnome wouldnt cut it in the past - this not to put down my favourite window environment, but an acknowledgement that all that niceness comes at a (sometimes prohibitive) price. BillK On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:35 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ian K wrote: > | Mike Noble wrote: > | > |> > | Please dont give me the down with KDE or GNOME talk, Ive heard it all > | too much before. > | I have made a decision and am sticking with it. I also was going to use > | it for Xine and such to > | increase music playback preformance. If anyone knows of such a way to do > | this, please reply. > | I guess the main reason I am persuing this, is because identical > | versions of KDE (one with > | Gentoo / one with Slackware) performed differently, under the same > | circumstances. I was thinking > | that maybe it had something to do with the other distro, in case the > | guys at Slackware rigged it > | like that.....? > > Apparently you have a rather big chip on your shoulder. I was not > saying anything bad about KDE or GNOME. I use KDE myself, but is > a resource hog. All I was doing was giving you options which is > what Linux is all about. > > Mike > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFB/yM1lJFYJP/fwTsRAiXrAJ4zsbyQ1K1nGEpmTAVl1bjMfbYejACfULUf > NEKFfaTZByrWQYFNTyZGPT8= > =m+sx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
