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Re: Gnome



jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> 
> >
> > jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Birger Langkjer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Is it fast? That's my main problem with KDE.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Is it slow due to memory use (you hear the disk paging) or due to CPU
> > > power?  I have found that on slow boxes (read a P75) movement of
> > > windows tends to lag behind.  Atonishibgly opaque move is a lot faster
> > > than KDE's transparent move so turn it on.
> > >
> > > > Depends on how much hardware you throw at it ... (-;
> > > >
> > >
> > > On the PII 400 I have at work it flies :-)
> > >
> > > > Seriously, enlightenment is a pig ( worse than kwm ).
> > > >
> > >
> > > Enlightenment 0.15 autotunes according the speed of box.  It is not
> > > too big but if you begin to get fancy with backgrounds and icons then
> > > it will eat memory.   Gnome is a bit slow on P75s (remove animations).
> >
> > Somehow E dose not run for me.  Sometimes it dumps core and sometimes
> > it just doesn't load at all.  However running Gnome with sume other nune
> > compliant WM it looks OK and lots of stuff work regardless.  The whole
> > package is almost ready for 1.0.  I'll go check out E's site to find
> > out could be causing it to implode on my machine.
> >
> 
> It runs well on me but a) I have no other themes that the ones
> provided with 0.15, some themes in e.themes.org crashed 0.14 b) I
> removed every doftfile coming of previous installations c) I am
> running E 0.15

After much poking at the console while E is dying on X I found 
that LibJPG has something to do with it.  I'll grab the ver that 
ships with RedHat 5.2 and try again :(