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qmrq

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Monday, July 14th 2003, 9:19pm

Help me turn off animations!

I've just installed KDE 3.1, and I am MAD! :evil:

The reason I'm trying to switch to Linux for workstation use (as opposed to using it solely for servers) is that I'm sick of Windows. All the pretty animated effects make me want to puke. There's also the fact that I can only keep it running a day or so before needing a reboot. :(

Anyhoo, I like KDE so far, but whenever I open something from the dock, the icon flashes a bit, does a little dance or something, THEN opens. There's a delay of around two seconds before anything launches. THIS IS DRIVING ME MAD. There also seems to be a delay whenever opening menus from the K-menu (or whatever the dealy in the lower left corner is called). This seems similar to the delay that occurs with Windows' start menu--one of the first things I change in a new Windows install. Are we afraid of scaring people by making their GUIs too responsive? :p

I've dug through all the KDE configuration settings, but I can't seem to fix this. I'd greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer! Pleeeaaassee help! :)

Rinse

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Wednesday, July 23rd 2003, 2:25am

The animation youre reffering to is the startup notification.
You can turn it off in kcontrol->look&theme's->startup notification
Turn of the busy cursor and/or tasktbar notification.

However this will not make your gui more responsive.

to get a faster kde, get rid of all eye candy, like animated menu's translucent effects, etc. etc.
Also check if your system is well optimised
(e.g. not too many daemons running, correct drivers voor your X-Window, X-Windows properly configured, DMA-settings of your drives optimised with hdparm, etc. etc.)
Another hack is the following:

[code:1]
# ps ax | grep X

23218 ? S 3:27 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-CahVKJ
23239 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/kde

# renice -10 23218
23218: old priority 0, new priority -10

[/code:1]

With ps ax | grep X you look for the pid of X
renice -10 23218 gives the pid of X more priority (-20 is maximum, and similar to the priority that MS gives to its QUI in Windows..)
Renicing applications to a higher priority is not without risk, and only available to root.
(the risk is, if something goes wrong with X, it is harder to avoid a system lockup...)

Good luck,

Rinse
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