On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > While LyX is fantastic in almost every way, it is slow... My LyX is slow at > pretty much everything. Typing, scrolling, moving the cursor around using > arrow keys, highlighting sections of texts, etc. Even for small documents. > > This is strange, since my computer is quite fast. It is slow botjh when > using the proprietary NVIDIA and the open-source Nouveau graphics card > driver. I'm running LyX on an XFCE desktop on Debian Sid, using Linux 3.0.4 > on a dual-core Asus laptop. > What version of LyX? Here 2.0.1 works fine on Xubuntu 10.04 64bit using Xfce.
Liviu > It is not extremely slow, but slow enough to affect the user experience > negatively. And I'm not one of those users that need everything to be > lightning-fast :-) It is sort of like running modern programs on an old > computer. > > I have gone through these points: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PerformanceIssues > > My comments on the points raised there: > > * My LyX uses more CPU than X. Total CPU usage is less than 100%. > * I don't use the outliner or source view. > * Cursor movement is slow, at least compared to most other programs. > * The Ctrl+Alt+F1 trick has no effect on the slowness. > > Any other ways to improve speed? I am willing to recompile LyX myself with > special options, or even modify the source code to deactivate stuff that is > inaccessible from the preferences, if someone would kindly guide me any > suggestion on what might help. > > I will try to go back to the proprietary Nvidia driver now and check out the > "nvidia-settings" command given on the page I referred to above. Or perhaps > the newer Nvidia driver will allow LyX to speed up, if I'm lucky! :-) > > Best regards > Torquil Sørensen > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
