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[Adam Tauno Williams]

>The details of that install are rather more on-topic, as
>are the minor changes needed to really make it run well.
>This is the only GNOME box at Chez Brown at this time;
>I've been a devotee of KDE and other, much more light-
>weight window managers, like XFCE, QVWM, and OpenLook,
>but with all the GNOME-ists around here, I thought I
>would give it a whirl. Mostly this machine will be a 
>user-level workstation, no development will take place 
>directly on it (although I reserve the right to log in
>to other machines and hack away! :). All the GNOME and
>some of the KDE components are installed, but no server
>software. It will be interesting to see how comfortable
>it is to use this machine.

One tip is to change the window border theme to 'Crux', or something other than
blue-curve.  In my cubicle I still use a ~300MHz
AMD-Ah!-Floating-Point-Operations!-Run-For-The-Hills! box.  It is just fine as
about the only thing I do locally is some file management and updating a few
spreadsheets.  But after installing RH8.0 GNOME windows C-r-a-w-l-e-d.  But as
long as I didn't overlay or move any windows it was fine, so I though it might
be calculating the gradients and curves in the theme.  Once I switched the
window border theme to Crux I was back to my snappy GNOME 2 feel.  This probably
doesn't effect workstations with real (i.e. non-AMD) CPUs.
> 
> >This post was intended for me...
> Thanks, I got a lot of sleep as it is. IMO There's no need 
> to prolong this thread, other than discussion of what a 
> Gnovice GNOME-ist may think of the gnew sytem.
> 
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