Comments on: GTK2 is still just too slow http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/gtk2-is-still-just-too-slow/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Farewell, OLPC XO-1 « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/gtk2-is-still-just-too-slow/#comment-38566 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:26:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-38566 [...] it if, in my experience, the video subsystem better matched the demands put on it (it always seemed a bit too slow for 1200×800, or whatever) and if perhaps there was a little more power overall, in the entire [...]

]]> By: htopjunkie http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/gtk2-is-still-just-too-slow/#comment-36395 Tue, 27 May 2008 16:58:18 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-36395 gtk2 uses more cpu than qt3.x for some actions like opening menus and scrolling etc it gets even worse if you use a nicer looking theme. especially on very old ancient computers with a pentium 1 gtk2 is just not an option. you need to stick with fltk gtk1 etc as much as possible. this also makes one wonder why a nice so called meant to be light program like pcmanfm choose to use gtk2 :(

greets

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/gtk2-is-still-just-too-slow/#comment-35464 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:21:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-35464 I’ll double-check that; I recall disabling those a long time ago, but don’t recall if it affected GTK2. Thanks for reminding me. :)

]]> By: xabbott http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/gtk2-is-still-just-too-slow/#comment-35460 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:28:59 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-35460 Do you have dri,glx, or aiglx enabled in xorg? Wondering if disabling stuff like that would help.

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