[plug] starting up kde faster?

[Leon Blackwell]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:03:36PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Does anybody have any tips for making KDE 2.2 start faster? It
> currently takes 20-30 seconds on my PIII 900Mhzw/256MB RAM laptop.

Are you running a recent version of XFree?  Some earlier version of the
4.x series did not cache font metrics, which meant that loading KDE with
font antialiasing turned on was terribly slow.

You might like to try switching font antialiasing off and seeing if that
helps at all.


If not, realise that KDE and Gnome are bloated and just switch to
something else like WindowMaker.  You can always run the gnome panel
with it (and possibly even kpanel).  KDE might look nice and sugary, but
it's all as slow as treacle.


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