KDE4 slow

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2009/7/14 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>:
> 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.

Disabling desktop effects I feel no difference at all. In fact, the
only thin going fluid in my KDE4 are the desktops effects (nvidia
driver).


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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>