Re: gtk2 very slow and memory hungry?
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 07:05, Ole Laursen wrote:
> Chun Kit Edwin Lau <try_email_me@yahoo.ca> writes:
> > I am not sure what problem is it?
>
> I don't know either, but I'm pretty sure it is not the libraries. Have
> you looked in .gnome-errors?
>
> > But since I upgrade to gnome2, things are just very slow. Startup
> > time for gnome-terminal (gtk2), gvim (gtk1) and galeon (gtk1) are
> > much longer then it used to be. gnome-terminal in gtk1 use to take
> > 1s, but now the machine freezes up for like 3s on my pentium III
> > 500MHz. Same thing happen for the other gtk app. Any idea? Something
> > wrong with the mixing of library?
>
> Gnome Terminal has been rewritten completely, I think. The new version
> might be slower. But overall, the desktop is actually faster in my
> experience (this is on a 800 MHz PIII with 256 Mb RAM). Enabling
> anti-aliasing might make it slower though.
Not to mention, if you use a transparent background in gnome-terminal,
it can slow everything down a lot.
Other than the above, I have been quite happy with gnome2 too.
James Strandboge
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