Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Apr 2006 21:00 UTC
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Member since:2005-10-02
You should try GNU/Linux with GNUstep and then you'll see how to do these things right.
Much much faster redrawing than anything I've ever experienced with any system yet (it even beats OS/2 (eComStation) and Syllable and SkyOS). It does however proof that X.org and GTK+2 isn't the reason for slowness in Gnome.
To turn off animation:
In gconf-editor:
Go to /apps/metacity/general/ and enable "reduced_resources". It takes effect immediately. It turns off animations, gives you a wireframe when moving and/or resizing windows.
It shouldn't be necessary for good performance, but it is. You could also switch to another WM and gain extra performance without trading off functionality.
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>Yes, Metacity can do max vert. and horiz, but only
>with the keyboard and not by using the middle and
>right mouse-buttons like almost every other WM does.
But the middle and right mouse-buttons are already mapped to standard X/GTK+ functions. Middle to paste and right for activating context menus. Middle clicking on the window decoration will also switch windows, but middle clicking is widely used for paste operations on Unix.
>But whats much worse then all the good features it
>lacks and the annoyances it adds like the stupid
>minimize-animation is the horrible horrible speed.
>Most people probably dont even notice it and
>conclude that gnome or X are slow but its just
>sucky Metacity.
If the animation bothers you, why don't you turn it off?
>Try xfwm4 (from xfce4) or any other WM and you
>will see that switching between Windows goes
>noticable faster.
How much faster? 0.0002 nano seconds?