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« on: May 08, 2008, 04:23:53 am »
Hi,

I installed both KDE and Gnome and was surprised that KDE performs better.

Gnome is just too slow. Is anyone successfully runnig Gnome? What tweaks could be applied?

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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2008, 05:06:20 am »
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Hi,

I installed both KDE and Gnome and was surprised that KDE performs better.

Gnome is just too slow. Is anyone successfully runnig Gnome? What tweaks could be applied?

I am surprised.  
Is it possible to install kde as default window-manger instead of ice-wm? Any link?.
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2008, 06:09:06 am »
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Hi,

I installed both KDE and Gnome and was surprised that KDE performs better.

Gnome is just too slow. Is anyone successfully runnig Gnome? What tweaks could be applied?

I am surprised.  
Is it possible to install kde as default window-manger instead of ice-wm? Any link?.

just do a aptitude install
kde-desktop or
gnome-desktop

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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2008, 06:32:39 am »
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Hi,

I installed both KDE and Gnome and was surprised that KDE performs better.

Gnome is just too slow. Is anyone successfully runnig Gnome? What tweaks could be applied?

I am surprised.  
Is it possible to install kde as default window-manger instead of ice-wm? Any link?.

just do a aptitude install
kde-desktop or
gnome-desktop
Thank you.
Meanwhile i did a full install of kde.

- apt-get install kdebase
- edit .xinitrc to "exec startkde"
- edit kdmrd to login as root "AllowRootLogin=true"

Great. My c3200 boots into KDE!!!!!!!!!!

- Sound is working  
- Touchscreen is not set up  
- Mouse-Pointer is not working  
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« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 08:13:22 am »
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Great. My c3200 boots into KDE!!!!!!!!!!

Despite that some features are not working- how about performance ?
Can we make assumptions on that based on eg. boot times ?

Oliver

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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2008, 11:34:08 am »
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Great. My c3200 boots into KDE!!!!!!!!!!

Despite that some features are not working- how about performance ?
Can we make assumptions on that based on eg. boot times ?

Oliver

The performance was o.k. (for a 400mhz processsor). Slow but acceptable.

Sound-output was extremely delaying and the touchscreen seemed unusable. Instead, i used a usb-mouse.
If sound-output and the touchscreen-issues can be fixed - kde will be a comfortable, attractive desktop-enviroment.
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« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2008, 09:53:34 pm »
I use E17 atm, but found the Gnome too be very usable.
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