Re: [SLE] KDE3.2 *only* in SuSE 9.1 painfully slow

Peter B Van Campen writes:

On Monday 06 September 2004 12:00, Mark Gray wrote:

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Andy Prough writes:

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On Friday 03 September 2004 13:42, Mark Gray wrote:

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"James P. Bennett" writes:

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My difficulty is a bit different. In the KDE environment, windows containing KDE apps are very slow to load (taking 4x - 6x as long as

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example program to start. After a week of using fvwm2 again, KDE and Qt are just not acceptable anymore. (But I will give KDE another chance when SuSE-9.2 appears.)

Hi,

Just for curiosity's sake: do TOP or any other view of processes and tell me if there is a proc named "Ksoftirq" or something like that. When I was having the problem that you are having I saw that proc in K System Guard burning lots of cycles. Can't specifically say what got rid of it, but a reinstall and careful selection of YOU items fixed it.

Also curious: If your CD/DVD drive is also a R orR/W unit try installing with it removed and replaced with a read-only device.

KDE on SuSE-9.1 is just not worth bothering with (IMO). Even if you get past the sluggish performance of KDE, the configuration possibilities with fvwm2 are just so far beyond what KDE is capable of, that that alone is reason enough to kiss KDE goodbye (at least until SuSE-9.2 comes out -- which should be any week now judging from past years (I hope, I hope, I hope)). I mean try and bind key strokes or mouse clicks to arbitrary complex window manager functions (that you can write yourself on the fly without restarting), or to external programs using KDE. With KDE it is just one size fits all.