On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2012-10-07 03:25 (GMT-0400) Per Jessen composed:
I've recently upgraded a laptop from 11.4 to 12.2 - the upgrade went very well, no issues at all. However, the machine is clearly not "big" enough to run 12.2+KDE, and the user is now complaining about it being
What CPU/speed and gfxchip does it have?
slow and difficult to work with. I could always re-install 11.4, but I thought I'd ask about the possibility of doing a downgrade?
Before doing anything so drastic you might want to try performance tweaking:
1:create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-composite.conf containing: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection
2:disable automatic nepomuk/strigi startup: A:make sure ~/.kde4/share/config/nepomukserverrc includes: [Basic Settings] Start Nepomuk=false [main Settings] Storage Dir[$e]=$HOME/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/ Used Soprano Backend=null rebuilt index for type indexing=false [Service-nepomukstrigiservice] autostart=false
B:make sure ~/.kde4/share/config/nepomukstrigirc includes: [General] exclude folders[$e]=$HOME/tmp/null index hidden folders=false index newly mounted=false
3:go into desktop settings and deslect most or all of the individual effects
If those alone are not enough:
4:install KDE3 and/or LXDE and/or XFCE & make it default WM
Additional KDE tweaking questions should goto opensuse-kde and/or opensuse-kde3 list(s). -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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Before you do all that, make sure none of the packages you installed pulled in "tracker". If they did, uninstall it. I always have serious performance problems if tracker is installed, and it is pretty much useless for KDE users, but it is easy to accidentally install. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org