From opensuse Wed Sep 09 16:58:22 2015 From: Alvin Beach Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:58:22 +0000 To: opensuse Subject: Re: Re: [opensuse] Why do I feel that KDE is slow Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=opensuse&m=144181790616159 On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Xen wrote: > On 09/05/2015 03:17 PM, Anton Aylward wrote: >> >> On 09/05/2015 07:36 AM, Xen wrote: >>> >>> >>> I don't know what else, but especially the alt-f2 thing is extremely >>> slow to come down, in the first place. Why should such a dialog take >>> more than no-time to drop down?. >> >> Good question. >> >> Why does it take time for you but no noticeable time for me? > > > I don't know that is my question I guess. I don't think it is a matter > of differing perception here. > > It is just a regular 4-year old laptop. 4GB ram. 2x1.87 GHz cpu. Nothing > special, nothing weird, nothing bad. Old 1.8" SATA HDD. Reportedly, not > as fast. Maybe it is a matter of perception, I don't know. But it is > definitely not instant with the keypress. It can't be a disk issue > because such things must be cached. > > Maybe it's just a slight delay combined with the animation. The slight > delay is there in the first place. If I play around with it (keep > pressing it) the delay grows sometimes to more than a second. Take a look at System Settings->Application Appearance->Style->Fine Tuning. In particular the "Graphical effects:". From the drop down, try one that has "and Low CPU". I did this and KDE seems faster for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org