On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 22:11:21 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On my twelve or thirteen year old single-processor 32-bit box running > a Japanese IME and stuff that works with Japanese, fvwm doesn't really > feel any lighter. Typing really lags sometimes when the processor gets > busy. > > Which is what I should have said and didn't. Sorry.
nice or renice whatever is doing the work. If you have multicore then it's less symptomatic but I don't see how anything else can solve that but using scheduling. Maybe some environments do some automated nicing but not that I know of.
