Speed up KDE?

[duragezic]

I can happily say that I finally got FC2 working decently, but it's a bit sluggish through the virtual machine if I start having a lot of editor windows, Firefox, etc.. open. Is there anything I can do with KDE to speed it up like turning off effects or anything? Or would Gnome be any faster?

 

[AkumaBao]

Try Fluxbox. I wouldn't expect to get KDE 3.x or Gnome 2.6 to run much faster on a virtual system. What virtual software are you using, and what speed of system?

 

[duragezic]

I'm using VMware, and I do have the vmware-tools installed, which is suppose to speed up graphic performance. System is in sig, it's a 2.2ghz Barton w/ 512mb ram. Actually I'm gonna boot it up right now and try out that Fluxbox as long it ain't too hard to install.

 

[gaidin123]

Fedora is a pretty bloated distro. I know it ran a lot slower than my gentoo one running kde3 under vmware. Fluxbox should definitely help but at the same time turning off all of the services that fedora turns on by default will help boot times and decrease ram usage by a good deal. I'd try a more minimal gentoo, debian, slackware type install.

Gaidin

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: gaidin123
Fedora is a pretty bloated distro. I know it ran a lot slower than my gentoo one running kde3 under vmware. Fluxbox should definitely help but at the same time turning off all of the services that fedora turns on by default will help boot times and decrease ram usage by a good deal. I'd try a more minimal gentoo, debian, slackware type install.

Gaidin

Compiling Gentoo under vmware must be pure hell.

I would use Slack or ArchLinux, but that is personal preference, Debian or loads of other distros would work just as well, http://distrowatch.org is a good place to visit.

You cannot compare fluxbox to KDE, one is huge and the other is minimal, regardless of which distro you are running KDE is not something you want to run in a VM.

I recommend IceWM or Fluxbox, try both and see which you like best.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I bet increasing your ram would go a long way. The VM uses a good chunk of memory, and all the stuff you are running uses a lot too. Plus you need ram for the Host OS as well. I bet you've completely maxed out your 512mb.

 

[gaidin123]

Originally posted by: Klixxer
Compiling Gentoo under vmware must be pure hell.

I did a stage3 install and yeah it did take quite a while but the convenient thing is I only had to do the install once and now I have an image to move around to as many virtual machines as necessary. I think I just left the thing compiling overnight on the fastest machine I had available.

Gaidin

 

[duragezic]

How do I install fluxbox?? I extracted the rpm, but I don't know where it went, and if I try it again it says it's already installed. The webpage says that I should change into the directory it created and run ./configure, then makefile or whatever, then edit the .xsession file, which I could probably handle, but I have no idea where the hell it put this thing!

 

[MNKyDeth]

Just a suggestion but FC2 has other window managers and such in there repos I beleive. Enlightenment or xfce4 may help aswell. They are a bit heavier than say Fluxbox but atleast they are in the yum repos and should make for a very easy install. You can then, when logging in select the session you want and choose wich WM/DE you would like to use.

IMO, it is just an easier solution than trying to do things by digging around.