Kde2/cygwin awfully slow on Windows XP

[Ralf Habacker]

> I have a similar problem (which occured after my employer switched my PC
> from
> pure W2K to W2k/Novell).  It seems that the machine searches the network
> within
> Cygwin.  The problem improves significantly if I pull the ethernet plug and
> comes back
> when connected via modem.  I had no problems prior to the installation of
> the Novell client.
>
X11 uses by default the hostname for the DISPLAY variable and this will set to
the modem connections ip-address, which will redirect all X11 communction over
the modem line, which is very slow.

Try setting

$ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0

before starting KDE.

Ralf