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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: Re: [opensuse] Why do I feel that KDE is slow
From:       Alvin Beach <alvinbeach () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-09-09 16:58:22
Message-ID: CALZOkd27+1Oy1xnr=JUy9s_16Ys888TmNeUTAj_dpSPZVOgb-A () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Xen <list@xenhideout.nl> 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.
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