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by Karamel
Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:30 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: LXDE too slow
Replies: 8
Views: 6742

Re: LXDE too slow

I am going to change the video card next week. Maybe this will help.
by Karamel
Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:28 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: LXDE too slow
Replies: 8
Views: 6742

Re: LXDE too slow

Harddisk is Seagate 4 GB The slow speed when starting programms seems to be a harddisk problem and it "feels" like that. I thought the HDD might run in PIO mode, but hdparm told me that it runs in UDMA mode. Strange. The time the system needs to boot until gdm is ready is 3 minutes and 6 s...
by Karamel
Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:58 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: LXDE too slow
Replies: 8
Views: 6742

Re: LXDE too slow

According to "top" there is no daemon that causes the problem. After I installed KDE on this computer (which I am using right now) it was slow, too, but after I turned off some features, it was fine. 450 MHz, 512 MB, Matrox G200, KDE: no problem 300 MHz, 512 MB, Matrox G100, LXDE: too slow...
by Karamel
Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:17 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: LXDE too slow
Replies: 8
Views: 6742

Re: LXDE too slow

maces wrote:For the animation have a look at your "~/config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml".(...).
Btw. what's your distro?
Debian/ Lenny
So it is actually an Openbox problem?
Thanks for your screencasts btw.
by Karamel
Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:15 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: LXDE too slow
Replies: 8
Views: 6742

LXDE too slow

How can I turn off unnecessary features like animation when resizing a window?
I installed LXDE on an old computer with 300 MHz, 512 MB.