"Alan Mead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am preparing a used computer for my mother. I installed win98 SE and then > Enigma. Of course, I'm rooting for Linux but I notice that when I boot > Windows it flies while Gnome is quite slow. KDE seems to run faster (also > the little "hourglass" animations are psychologically pleasing). Is it > possible to make Gnome faster? Can it be configured to have "hourglass" > icons? How would I diagnose the choke points? Or should I just stick with > KDE? Although I've used Linux for years and I've used an old RH 7.1 desktop > for a while, I have not tinkered with GUI much and really don't know the > first thing about the internals (e.g., the distinction between X, Gnome, and > Sawmill is not clear to me).
RH72 shipped with Nautilus instead of gmc. Nautilus is a resource hog that's not worth what it takes to run it on my machine (K6/350MHz, 220MB RAM). First, start gmc from an xterm as a background process: gmc & Look for the GNOME Settings menu and select "Session". Then select Nautilus and change it's property from respawn to normal, then kill it. Then select gmc and change it from normal to respawn. If that's not enough difference, try a lighter window manager like XFCE. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation <http://www.linux.org/> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
