On Thursday 18 September 2003 23:29, Doug Holland wrote: > > since upgrading KDE to version 3.1.4 on Debian Woody I experince delays > > when starting KDE applications. Don't had these delays on KDE 3.1.3. My > > /etc/hosts contains valid entries for localhost and the name of the > > machine. > > Here are a couple of the usual suspects that cause KDE slowness: > > 1. Out-of-date font cache. Fix by running fc-cache -f -v as root. I use Woody so I don't have fc-cache. > 2. /tmp/.ICE-unix/ missing or has wrong owner/group/permissions. To fix, > execute following commands as root. > mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix > chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix > chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix Did that already long time ago (I'm doing this at bootup time). Again: Everything was fine with KDE 3.1.3 but changed with KDE 3.1.4. > 3. I've also found that if you're on a non-permanent net connection such as > a dialup, it helps to run your own DNS server, since many programs expect > DNS service to be working at all times, otherwise they throw errors or sit > through long timeouts before responding to user input. For a home > workstation on a ppp connection, pdnsd is a good personal DNS server that > gets the job done without creating too many hassles. It is regardless if I sit here at the end of a 100Mb connection or at home without external net. Nevertheless, thank you! Frank -- ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##
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