kde extreamly slow ...

jabka · 10-07-2005, 12:20 PM

Howdy,...
my kde 3.3.2 works extreamly slow and eats lots of memory .
it come to this that i have to close all progs just for using k3b (to write in greater speed then 0.9x).
i wish to make a clean install .
is there any other dir then .kde that i should delete ?

tuxdev · 10-07-2005, 12:52 PM

If you are going to do a clean install, that means deleting everthing by formating the partition. What are your specs? They may be simply to slow to handle KDE. If so, try a standalone window manager like IceWM or WindowsMaker.

jabka · 10-08-2005, 03:44 AM

Good evening,
i don't want to destroy my whole os just becouse kde start works funney. i prefer to delete some files or directories.

samael26 · 10-08-2005, 04:50 AM

Did you set the visual effects to the minimum in kpersonalizer ?
This might help speed up kde.

cheers

jabka · 10-08-2005, 10:05 AM

Howdy,...
i test my other X like iceWm,Gnome,Xfce 4
IceWm:works pretty ok.
Gnome:can use firefox plus enother thing speed decreasses .
Xfce:firefox azurues thunrbird toghether and it takes allmost 3 secs to load filemanger.

enother thing:
when minimizing firefox(page with flashh) and then focus on it you can c the flash but not the rest of the page then it start to take lots of mem .
only on kde 3.3.2

mrcheeks · 10-08-2005, 10:09 AM

what are your computer specs? Do you have enough ram and cpu frequence?maybe you should use a window manager instead of a full desktop?

jabka · 10-08-2005, 11:09 AM

My specs are:
Amd 2000
512 DDR works now on 233.
1.5 swap .

the thing is that when i used mdk 10.1,Slax popcorn all was ok .

dracolich · 10-08-2005, 02:19 PM

Maybe the problem is with X more than with the window manager. Have you changed things in your xorg.conf? Have you installed lots of new fonts?

jabka · 10-08-2005, 02:26 PM

Nope ...
the only changes is with add the Nvidia driver and adding 20 fonts.

shot in dark...
I compiled lots of progs (gtk based) can be a any connection.

jabka · 10-14-2005, 06:14 AM

Howdy,..
i understand that there can be a prob with my X ...
how can reinstall it ?

dracolich · 10-14-2005, 06:53 AM

Before resinstalling X, try editing your xorg.conf and change the video driver to vesa. See if that changes anything. Maybe the nvidia driver you're using is incompatible or needs tweaking.

The easiest way to reinstall X would be to use the packages from your install cd. Boot in commandline mode as root, remove the existing packages then reinstall them from your cd.

jabka · 10-14-2005, 07:22 AM

sorry,...
but witch packages or maybe even libs i need to reinstall.
is it only Xorg* ? or should it be something else?

dracolich · 10-14-2005, 10:05 AM

The X packages are all named x11-something. X itself would be x11-6.8.2. Try that one first. The rest are docs and fonts and extras.

jabka · 10-14-2005, 10:31 AM

Thnx ...
I will test it tomrow ...