From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTOvm-0004xP-6c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:44:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6871E09FD; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F9CE09FD for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:43:00 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AowGAK/eKEzO+LI1/2dsb2JhbACTBIwxcsB2hSQEii6DPA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,500,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="69081829" Received: from 206-248-178-53.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.178.53]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 28 Jun 2010 20:42:59 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:42:49 -0400 From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:42:49 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] slow x Message-ID: <20100629004249.GA14992@waltdnes.org> References: <20100628192613.GA3851@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100628192613.GA3851@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 40a04e41-b7bc-435a-966e-4bf19e4ac0ea X-Archives-Hash: 636702a8ad70e64fddb10cd617ab80bd On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:26:13PM +0200, mailinglists00@gmail.com wrote > My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized web browser with a > page with pictures and text. If I maximize it, the drawing of the > page and the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it takes a moment. Is this for all X apps, or just Firefox. If it's just text-rendering, try compiling Firefox with "moznopango" flag , either in /etc/make.conf or /etc/package.use. Note that this may disable non-English fonts. > I have a radeon 7500 , 512MB of RAM, 1,5GHz AMD > and fluxbox, 1.6.5-r1 x server. Is that 512MB the video card or your system ram? If it's 512MB system ram, that's probably your problem right there. Firefox will strain your system just by itself. Firefox is getting too bloated for its own good. SQL database and spell-check built in... what was the old joke about Mozilla 0.9... about:kitchen sink. Firefox is a mediocre operating system that lacks a lightweight web-browser. -- Walter Dnes