On 6 Jun 2001 23:09:13 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Theo) wrote:
>i am running red hat linux 7.0 (although thinking of switching to ROCK
>linux, to cut down on the 'bloat-factor' which i'm beginning to hate
>so much.), and running mozilla 0.9, not a nightly build, just the
>milestone release. it is under the Gnome environment, using the
>Sawfish window manager (although thinking of switching over to
>Oroborus window manager again to cut down on bloat.)
>
[...]
>
>there is still a big lag between where my mouse is on the window
>and what it clicks, and what actually happens. when i move the cursor
>to hover over the 'bookmarks' button, it takes a good many seconds for
>the program to catch up, and allow me to click it. then i wait a few
>more seconds for the menu to pop down. this reaction time is much
>slower than what netscape 4.75 and all other programs i used were
>(even Jarl, a Perl/Tk Jabber instant messaging client i use.)
>
>also to be fair, my system is old. i am running this on a Cyrix 166
>with 64 mb's RAM. the only fast thing i have is a DSL connection :) i
>am that programmer/user who stands firm against the tide of constant
>processor upgrades. :)
>
>i just wanted to know, is this sort of lag to be expected on my
>system? a 166 processor, although within the required hardware specs
>(barely), cannot be expected to perform any better than that? even
>though netscape works fine?
>
>or is there some way i can improve this performance? is the nightly
>build improvment on performance? whatabout trying to cut out the fat
>of Gnome? i use it b/c i can have an attractive background pixmap and
>program launchers both on the desktop and on a panel at the bottom of
>my screen. but other than the bit of eye candy and functionality
>there, i don't have any real reason to run Gnome. could i improve
>performance by switching out of Gnome, to some independant window
>manager? any suggestions for a window manager that you like? what
>about cutting out any other bloat elsewhere?
Hi,
I am using a Pentium 166 MMX and, yes, there is a slight delay in
menu response, but not seconds. About half a second perhaps.
If you are so concerned about bloat you'd better not use any of the
"desktop environments". I'm using fvwm2 and I have yet to find anything
sensible that it can't do. I have always thought of Gnome and KDE as
attempts to bring Windows (i. e. bloat) to Linux, and that is not what
I want. ;-)
HP
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