From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F95Zi-0005k2-1C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:10:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1EJ9uuS023692; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:09:56 GMT Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com (sj-iport-4.cisco.com [171.68.10.86]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1EJ5qeg021515 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:05:52 GMT Received: from sj-core-3.cisco.com ([171.68.223.137]) by sj-iport-4.cisco.com with ESMTP; 14 Feb 2006 11:05:52 -0800 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.02,114,1139212800"; d="scan'208"; a="1776349576:sNHT60868914" Received: from xbh-sjc-231.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-231.cisco.com [128.107.191.100]) by sj-core-3.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k1EJ5oc3009327 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from xfe-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com ([171.70.151.187]) by xbh-sjc-231.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:05:50 -0800 Received: from [10.89.24.106] ([10.89.24.106]) by xfe-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:05:50 -0800 Message-ID: <43F22A0D.1010509@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:05:49 -0600 From: Roy Wright User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060117) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again) References: <1139873701.9827.10.camel@orpheus> <1139901154.10140.6.camel@orpheus> <200602140341.01234.bss03@volumehost.com> <200602140826.12137.schroder@ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <200602140826.12137.schroder@ntplx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2006 19:05:50.0530 (UTC) FILETIME=[AB989A20:01C63199] X-Archives-Salt: 856b93b8-483f-4e83-bb3a-2ca5b5195e0c X-Archives-Hash: 5626efe7b634fe791223e21e2e71998e Ernie Schroder wrote: >I tried all this a while back and it used too much cpu. It slowed my >XP2400/1gigRAM system down to unacceptable levels. Has this been corrected in >KDE 3.5.x? > > Try enabling the backingstore as suggested on the wiki. That solved the slowness problem for me. I'm running KDE 3.5.1. The other option, which is very tempting for me, is to try XGL in Xorg 7. Demo video available at http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/58 Have fun, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list