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[Robert G. Brown]

Earlier, I had written (among other things):
>>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;...
Adam Williams replied:
>One tip is to change the window border theme to 'Crux', or something other 
>than blue-curve.  
I'll give this a try; at the moment I'm cleaning off the machine that is
sitting where this one will go, then I'll pull it and place the "new" box
there.

>In my cubicle I still use a ~300MHz AMD-Ah!-Floating-Point-Operations!-Run-
>For-The-Hills! box.
My "new" box is a 233 mHz Pentium MMX, so anything I can do to snap up
response will be a welcome thing. If GNOME gets too tedious, I'll be able
to drop back to one of the lightweght WM's.

>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.
Interesting. Perhaps this is an issue with the video card and X-Server? I'm
sure you're right aboutthe image processing issues, I just wonder how much 
of this we can chalk up to a bad video card, as opposed to a bad CPU. My
CPU is slower, but it is Intel; I don't recall the video card, but it's not
a terrible one... we'll see once I plop it in place and muck with it a little.

							Regards,
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