Slow slow slow.

Gabriel Jägenstedt gabriel.j at telia.com
Wed Mar 8 05:51:13 UTC 2006


After installing a lot of gnomepackages and rebooting(don't ask me why I
just felt like it.) gkrellm is it's old fast self again, grip and
gnomebaker are still slow, but I can deal with that.

Thanks to all who helped

Gabriel Jägenstedt wrote:
> Yeah.
> I installed fluxbox0.9.14 yesterday and it made fluxbox react much
> faster, however The applications I mentioned are still reacting slowly
> so there must be two problems.
> 
> It seems to me that all the applications acting this way are built for
> gnome. I', thinking it might be some library that I removed in my frenzy
> or something like that. I'm going to go through the gnome packages and
> hope for the best =)
> 
> Thanks for the heads up on the version, Peter & Wei-Yee
> 
> Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:39:40 +0100
>>Gabriel Jägenstedt <gabriel.j at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I actually do state in the mail that I "run" fluxbox as in use.
>>>I've tried to clean up but I can't find what causes all this slowed down
>>>behaviour. I'd just like to know what I should be looking for.
>>
>>
>>Hi Gabriel,
>>You might have a look at
>>
>>
>>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-May/036501.html
>>http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-43428.html
>>
>>https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/fluxbox/+bug/1866 #this has
>>been resolved by the new fluxbox for dapper
>>
>>
>>The 0.9.14 version of Fluxbox fixes a bug that floods the font server.
>>With earlier versions the workaround was to compile it with 
>>
>>./configure --disable-xmb
>>
>>But this is isn't necessary with the 0.9.14 version. Dapper will ship with
>>0.9.14 apparently - but compiling it isn't difficult. The ubuntuforums
>>thread above gives my walk through (it' s actually the mailing list thread)
>>
>>If this is your problem, that should fix it. You may want to read the
>>whole thread, as I give a few other tips in it - you might already know
>>most of them if you are a fluxbox user though.
>>
>>HTH, and all that...
>>
>>Peter
>>
> 
> 




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