[plug] Differences between xfree and windows

[John Knight]

Ahh, the responsiveness. By this do you mean that it takes longer to close a 
window down or to minimise (if you've got a copy of KDE 2.2.x around, please 
install my team's language module (en_GB) so that it actually does say 
'minimise' instead of 'minimize') an application?

There may be an option around in an X app somewhere (I'm not really a GUI 
tweaking freak, so I'm by no means an expert on such matters) that'll allow 
you to change a time delay between clicking on 'close' and the actual 
closure of the window itself (try having a look in the Control Centre 
('Centre' also being in our language module).

For a personal window decoration, I certainly recommend IceWM (I may cause 
an uproar saying that!). It definitely looks snazzy in comparison to the 
sodding dull win9x look and looks fantastic when bordering an XMMS 
visualisation.

There may also simply be a problem of having too many useless startup 
services with not enough RAM to go around. I think Mandrake might come with 
a startup services util if I can remember correctly, get rid of any sort of 
firewall protection or email services that remain un-utilised and compile 
your kernel.

As for SOF running 'shonkily' (to use a cool word), it simply sounds as if 
your graphical drivers are ont properly installed in the Open GL/Mesa 3D 
side of things. There are plenty of howtos around for this subject, you 
shouldn't have any problems getting help online.

seeya then! :)
shameless promoter, KDE guy (otherwise know as "anarchist tomato" in less 
formal circles)

>I did feel that the windows GUI, on my systems, was crisper in response
>to events and even when trying a windows look-alike theme on the KDE
>desktop, it's not quite as sharp. Not that that is not my favoured look
>by any means. My two main boxes are a Pentium3 in an AOpen ax63pro mb
>with 512mb ram, a Voodoo3 2000 graphics card and an SB live sound card,
>and a Celeron 700 in an Intel eea815 mb with 384mb or ram, a Hercules 3d
>prophet 4500 graphics card and an sb pci128 sound card (both boxes duel
>boot with WinME and Mandrake 8.0 with KDE desktop). I recently tried a
>demo of the soldier of fortune game on the P3 system and found it so
>slow that it took me a couple of minutes just to exit it. This probably
>points to the driver question mentioned earlier I guess. I do have xfree
>drivers for the voodoo3 which do make some difference, but none seem to
>be available for the Hercules.
>
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