Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-27 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 04:12, John Hasler wrote: > Patrick Kirk wrote: > Having settled on xfce, evolution and galeon, performance is fine. Many thanks to all that made suggestions. Patrick

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-26 Thread John Hasler
Patrick Kirk wrote: | Slightly OT, I wonder am I losing anything in terms of functionality or | performance by running Evolution Galeon and other gnom-ish apps under | XFCE as opposed to under Gnome proper? I assume that by "Gnome proper" you mean the "Gnome Desktop Environment"? No. -- John Ha

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:29:37PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: | Slightly OT, I wonder am I losing anything in terms of functionality or | performance by running Evolution Galeon and other gnom-ish apps under | XFCE as opposed to under Gnome proper? GNOME apps run in the GNOME environment. You c

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 19:28, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > [snip] > > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip] > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and > > xfwm (www.xfce.org). Tr

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and > xfwm (www.xfce.org). Try it: I'm sure you'll like it. > > Have fun. I'm trying it now. The ov

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Michael Epting
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Tried mc. I don't like it. Konqueror is a great file manager. GMC is > OK but it keeps asking how to open text files which seems an odd thing > to need to configure. Are there other light file managers? I love emelfm. It does ever

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks to all who pointed out ways forward. > > I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. > > It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating > systems by using kde and gnome apps inte

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread ben
On Thursday 21 February 2002 02:30 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] > Tried mc. I don't like it. Konqueror is a great file manager. GMC is > OK but it keeps asking how to open text files which seems an odd thing > to need to configure. Are there other light file managers? > try all the others you

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread csj
On 21 Feb 2002 22:30:53 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. If you want that light, blackbox looks much better. > It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating > systems by using kde and gno

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Joe Buck
> My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. > I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for > web and evolution for mail. > Performance is appalling. Konqueror takes 13 seconds to launch. Galeon > takes 10 seconds. Evoluti

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 21 Feb 2002 22:30:53 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all who pointed out ways forward. > > I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. > > It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating > systems by using kde and gnome

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks to all who pointed out ways forward. I have switched to twm which offers all the window management I need. It seems that I was simply loading the equivalent of three operating systems by using kde and gnome apps interchangably on Enlightenment. That's sad. I like Evolution. In order to

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 15:42, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. This should be ok; when I wrote my thesis, half of the time I was editing on a much smaller machine than that, but you do have to be careful about

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 21 Feb 2002 20:42:04 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. > > I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for > web and evolution for mail. > > Performance i

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:42:04PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: | Hi all, | | My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 | celeron processor. Either you have a PII or a Celeron, but not both in one chip. | I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-21 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi all, > > My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. > > I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for > web and evolution for mail. > > Performance is appalling. Konquero