On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:33 +0530, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower > continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where > kwin was fast and nice. After every release, it would become slower. > It reached a negative peak with 4.6. Now with 4.7 RC1, kwin has become > even more slow. It's extremely annoying to use. > > What is happening to kwin? It's becoming the definition of "sluggish > GUI". Out of every window manager I have tried, kwin is now the slowest > of them all. > hm, perhaps other factors, like distribution, version of kernel and/or Xorg have something to do with that, as well as compiz and video card/driver. i'm running openSUSE, and at some stage i experienced very sluggish behavior, but could solve that by switching to a newer kernel & Xorg release. now, on openSUSE 11.4 with KDE 4.5 (K:D:F) i don't experience any sluggishness or exorbitant resource consumption. -- phani. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
