performace

[bobby swartz]

i using kde , my desktop is very laggy and slow, i have 48 ram. why is my desktop like this, is it because of the filemanager or maybe the xclient?? any suggesions are most apprecaited.

[Keyser Soze]

You sooooo need to do a search on this, but a couple of tips to be provided....kill unneeded services, do the hd tweaks, maybe get a lighter desktop(KDE is the equivelant of Win2000 and needs more resources than that). Good luck.

[JG]

What Keyser said........and part with some cash for extra ram...in my humble opinion go for at least 128MB

JG

[bobby swartz]

can someone please prescribe me another xclient other than kde, something that you have experienced and enjoyed. :)

[dvdnut]

try blackbox

what distro are u using as some come with most window managers these days for you to pick

kde is v heavy on the usage side but that is because it looks nice and smooth

gnome is just as bad, but if you have a beefy pc then this shouldnt be a problem

i have a 166mmx running 32 meg and kde is slow but usable

of course nothing beats cli but u cant have it all

[bobby swartz]

im using corel linux,, blackbox...isnt that a windows manger, is my desktop enviroment laggy because of kde or the window manager??

[bdl]

Your system is lagging because KDE is a hog. Dump it and run Blackbox or FVWM2, both very lightweight window managers that will draw the desktop, allow you to configure it to your hearts content and give you much more solid performance. Please checkout bbthemes.org (http://bb.themes.org/), blackbox.alug.org (http://blackbox.alug.org) and fvwm.org (http://www.fvwm.org) for more information, customization help and more cool stuff. Personally I run Enlightenment, which is better than KDE but still takes alot of memory, else I'd recommend that; however, I do use FVWM2 and Blackbox as well, they're both alot of fun and very stable. Luck!

[slayer17]

48 megs of ram will get you lag in most cases, but listen to the others go with blackbox or anything older than 3 years old. Best preformance will come with simple CLI. Go crazy with the command line brother, that is the best for pure speed and power! :)

[bobby swartz]

I can dump kde and pick up enlightenment because kde is a xclient and enlightenment is
a windows manager, they are completely differnt.

[Rob 'Feztaa' Park]

Um, not sure what you're on about...

KDE, enlightenment, blackbox, fvwm2, etc etc are all completely interchangeable... they are all window managers.

The only difference between KDE and the others is that you don't get any pretty icons on your desktop, which is a good thing because icons are useless and slow...

[bobby swartz]

there seems to be a confusion here, kde is a xclient not a windows manager, do you konw the difference?

[Domin]

Uhh, no my little newbie friend, KDE is a window manager.

[TacKat]

Actually, KDE is NOT a windows manager. KDE has it's own windows manager (kwm) but it is wholly un-necessary to run KDE. Any windows manager would do just fine as a replacement.

[Giscardo]

What processor do you have? If you are feeling frisky you might try recompiling everything with -03 optimization and with optimizations for your cpu...