> is there any advice available on speeding up xwindows apps on the > mainframe? i've tried starting gnome/nautilis to further configure my > system, and it's pretty near impossible due to the sluggish windows. it > takes 4-5 minutes for the basic desktop to show up. menu's take a minute > to show up.
1) Make absolutely certain you are running on a machine with IEEE floating point support. 2) Make sure you are running in the smallest virtual machine you can get away with, with plenty of vdisk swap disks. 3) Learn to like/use text mode whenever absolutely possible. 4) Use twm or a Very Simple window manager. 5) Turn off all the special effects in Gnome. All that gingerbread in Gnome costs mucho cycles, and X does tons and tons of floating point math. I don't remember what kind of system you have, but you may just not have enough horsepower. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
