Hello all, this is my first post here .

I have been using Mandrake 8.2 for about a year now, and I recently switched to 9.0(clean install). I started with KDE, and had absolutely no problems getting things back to the way I had them. Having done that, I proceeded to work on getting Gnome the way I like it as I like switching between the two desktops.

Unfortunately, Gnome did not want to cooperate. Gnome had worked beautifully for me in 8.2, but in 9.0 it is slow....real slow. I'm talking 20 seconds to open nautilus, and not even being able to move the window once its open. Stuff like that. Basically, Gnome is unuseable like this.

It might help if I gave some system specific inforamtion. I am running a p4 1.8, with 512 MB RDRAM, and using a GeForce 3 64MB. I have downlaoded and succesfully installed the latest nvidia drivers. Mandrake is on a 40 gig hard drive by itself.

There must be something I can do to fix this. I would really like to have Gnome working properly. I am thinking that it is a configuration problem somewhere, because my system is relatively new, and KDE3.0 works great(very fast). However, I still consider myself a newb, and really don't have any idea what this could be specifically. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

if you are connected to the internet with ethernet and did not set your hostname which in my case i got a dsl and during boot before setting up the hostname dhcp server gives mye hostname like host109.bellsotuh.com and during boot of gnome it was realy slow and i can not even open a terminal window but after changing hosst name everything is working smooth

I've seen that with Red Hat, but everytime I've installed Mandrake, it fills in the host name automatically. You might want to check it anyways, though.

Also, type "top" into a terminal to see what's running and how much resources it's taking up.

For me in Mandrake 9, it didn't do it automagically. My first time into Gnome2 it told me to go add it. I don't usually use Gnome2, so I haven't done it yet (I'm lazy).

I have the same problem here, how can I add my hostname in order to get gnome working?

I don't think it's the host name thing cause I also go t that meesage and fixed that. The error on startup went away, but the slowdown is still there.

add your hostname to the file /etc/hosts as show below:



127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost "your host name here"

That should do the trick, I had the same thing but it only seems to happen with Gnome and not KDE

thnx it works!