You and me both Terry... I've adopted XFCE as my window manager of choice for my 'processor challenged' laptop. It is considerably faster than KDE or Gnome, prettier than ICEwm and easier to use than Enlightenment or Blackbox IMO (And the screen savers are quite funky)
Two downsides are that many of the links are not set up correctly, and for some unexplained reason any 'X' application such as xterm is missing its scroll bars. I could use kterm or somesuch instead, but that means loading QT libraries etc which defeats the point of running a lightweight window manager. If you simply want to increase the speed KDE loads applications you could try out the famed Texstar's 'objprelinked' RPM's of KDE2.2.2 available from his download site at www.pclinuxonline.com I cannot honestly say it made a great deal of difference on my laptop, but others have reported significant speed increases. derek On Sunday 20 January 2002 17:11, you wrote: > A bit of an aside....fiddling about with window managers yesterday and > just having read an article in LinuxFormat about the XFce window > environment, I thought I'd try it. > > I'm liking XFce a lot....for me it's a good balance of GUI accessibility > yet a bit lighter in weight/faster than KDE or Gnome/Sawfish/Nautilus. > > Check it out. > > Terry Smith > Hatchville, MA > > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 10:47, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:08:50 +0100, "Assassin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think it is very slow on my machine (K6-II 450, 128 RAM, TNT2, 20GB > > > Quantum, with kernel 2.4.3). How can I optimise it so it can load and > > > run applications faster? > > > > The best way is to run fast software. KDE is probably the slowest of the > > lot, closely followed by GNOME/Sawfish with Nautilus enabled. I have a > > Pentium II 350MHz system, and I find GNOME/Sawfish _without_ Nautilus (or > > with GMC, which can replace Nautilus) to be reasonably fast. Otherwise, > > you should look at alternative window managers and environments like > > XFce, Enlightenment, IceWM, WIndowMaker, Blackbox/Fluxbox and PWM/Ion, > > all of which are lighter than GNOME and KDE. > > > > Once that's done, you can look into fast applications, like Galeon (web > > browsing), Sylpheed (e-mail) and Downloader for X (downloading). I'm a > > bit biased towards GTK+ 1.2 apps because I generally find them to be far > > faster than QT2 apps. They are also great apps in their own right. > > > > If you feel up to it (it can be a bit tricky), you may also wish to > > upgrade your kernel and XFree86 to more recent versions. The versions > > included in Mandrake 8.1 are a little old now.
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