Re: I'm looking for a better XShell
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:23:22 +0000
Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> >Gnome: My problem with gnome is that when I install the packages and
> >choose it in the display manager (kdm), I get a garble of
> >incompletely drawn windows, and there is repainting whenever I move
> >the mouse, which repainting makes the garble worse. This happens on
> >a Sarge system that is a clean new installation. I'm puzzled about
> >this and about the installation. I thought putting a new ext2fs on
> >the root partition would wipe out all old information, but somehow
> >old garbage seems to be surviving and poisoning things. But, for
> >now, I hope to avoid confronting this issue.
>
> Hmmm, never seen that problem. How does it look for a "virgin" user?
> (You can always create a temporary dummy user just to ake a quick look
> and then delete all traces of the user if you don't want to keep it
> around.)
>
> Fiddling with the root partition wouldn't necessarily have any impact
> on user configurations, what you need to do is clear out your user's
> configuration (~/.gnome*).
>
> It's also worth checking whether you've installed all the GOMe
> packages you need. The easiest way is to install 'gnome'. Which may
> bring in a few more packages than you strictly need, but it's easier
> to trim down later once you have things working.
If you are not using KDE, I would also recommend using GDM instead of
KDM. This should improve performance at least a little bit as it will
not be loading KDE libraries and such into ram. (Assuming GDM does not
exhibit the problems you mention having with a Gnome desktop.)
HTH,
Jacob
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