how to make KDE faster?

[Zabil Maliackal]

On Sunday 22 February 2004 06:13 pm, Tobias Niwi wrote:
> Trevor Smith wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I have 384meg of ram on an older computer (PIII 500) and Win2kPro, which
> > is a huge pig if run in less RAM, is VERY snappy. KDE, however, is not.
> > For example, double-clicking on my home directory icon on the desktop
> > takes between 1 and 3 seconds to open it.
>
> [...]
>
> Maybe there is something wrong with your font-settings. Try to run
> xftcache
> or
> fc-cache
> as root. For me it helped.

This tip helped me also. I did notice a small bit of improvement in loading 
konqueror and other KDE applications after I ran "fc-cache" (though I have no 
clue what it does).

I run Fedora Core 1 on my Athlon 1.2 ghz 128 MB RAM machine and I recently 
upgraded to KDE 3.2 made it my default desktop and I have to admit it is 
snappy.
If there are debates as to the reason of KDE being slow being attributed to 
Fedora binaries I don't think that is true. Gnome was slower than KDE in the 
base installation.
Earlier I had Win XP on my machine the reason why I went for a Fedora as a 
replacement was because Win XP was too *slow*  on my machine. Applications 
just don't load fast an "Alt+Tab" took ages.
Redhat 9.0 was slow I but maybe because I made some mistake while configuring 
it.
Fedora + KDE 3.2 is lightning on my machine now.I installed KDE 3.2 off the 
rpms I downloaded from the kde site.


>
> Tobias
>
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