KDE4 slow

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Monday 13 July 2009, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> I don't know which is the issue origin, but my system (KDE4 in a
> dual-core 1-GB-RAM laptop) is becoming unusable at all.
> Yesterday I had 8 tabs open in Konqueror, Yakuake and Kontact open
> (and KDE4 core apps).
> Have you ever felt the mouse staggering when moving it around the desktop?
> Pressing "New mail" in Kmail takes ~2 seconds (during the first second
> I see a gray window and after it I see all the elements being drawn).
> Changing from one tab to other in Konqueror was painful and slowww
> (again the gray screen and the slow rendering)...
>
> I hate to say it, but I must come back to KDE3 for my home
> environment. It's terribly fast in comparission with KDE4. :(

It sounds like you just need to disable desktop effects. It usually 
deactivates itself though when things get slow.

`Allan