Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

rich wrote:
> 
> Howdy all,
> 
> I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform
> relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While
> WP8 under W98, I can hold the "page down" key  for 5 seconds, and when I
> let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux,
> however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen
> pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can
> adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8
> just not as well-designed?

  you might want to check the x server settings - the acceleration
should be turned on.

  other than that it might be just poorly implemented application - is
it sluggish for one app only or for everything? or poorly accelerated
x...

	erik