Hi,
I have a pretty low resource system, and I realized by accident that it is much more responsive if I use GTK 1.x as the default renderer instead of GTK 2.x. I have both installed, and I dont necessessarily want to uninstall GTK 2.x incase some programs NEED it, but I would like to be able to use GTK 1.x as the default for my normal programs so that things run faster. Is there any easy way to do this? Would I have to recompile all my programs to support (or perfer) GTK 1.x, or is there an easy config file I can use to tell them which to use? Would I have to uninstall 2.x?

Thanks,
Marshall

Hi,

IMHO, you can't just change apps to use GTK 1.x instead of GTK 2.x, because the programming interface is not the same. For some applications, e.g. gvim and firefox, you can choose the toolkit to use (last time I installed OpenBSD, it still used firefox with GTK 1.x). You should be able to change that setting in some Gentoo-specific file - I cant't tell you the exact solution because I don't use Gentoo, but I think there should be some help in their guide/handbook about your /etc/make.conf (maybe remove the use-flag for gtk2?)... For the rest of your programs that use GTK 2.x you should keep GTK 2.x installed.

I hope that helps a bit,
matze