Gnome 2.2 slow as folk

floam · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:48 pm Post subject: Gnome 2.2 slow as folk

gah! Just emerged gnome 2.2, havnt tried gnome since the 1.xx 's a long time ago, been using openbox. I have a pretty fast computer. Athlonxp 2100, 256 mb pc2700 memory, and a geforce 4 ti 4200, running ck-sources. Gnome 2.2 is so friggin slow! Im using the nicified xfree wrapper, ive tried, -O2, -O3, and -Os , nothing helps. its slow as hell. top is showing me that 95% of my memory is being used with nothing running, telling me that I have six instances of nautilus using 5mb each, while all nautilus is doing is doing two icons on my desktop.

wtf?

zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

same thing here. I was quite excited by the 2.2 version, all the good stuff that came with 2.0 plus the polish. Damn, it is nice to look at, but that's about it. The interface slows down here and there, for no apparent reason, sometimes the menus will load as fast as they're supposed to, sometimes they'll make the HD spin like crazy. I'd like to like gnome, but it's just sooo far behind KDE now, for all kinds of reasons like this one. My girlfriend is using redhat 8 with gnome and she doesn't have those problems, I guess there are little tweaks and patches we could apply, but when it comes to desktop environments, I just become the laziest bastard around. I like something that works right out of the box, and so far, KDE delivers.
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floam · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:46 pm Post subject:

heh, oh well, back to openbox.

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

mabey this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=37495
might assist your problems.

ciao,
sa

acidreign · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 10:37 am Post subject: I wasnt the only one

Glad i wasnt the only one who thought the same way, its crawling. In my attempt to fix it, ive also set all icons back to the default. "page" icon..

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576