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[Adam Tauno Williams]

>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;...
>>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.

Ah, the critical "make way" phase.

>>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

Quite possibly, it has some cheap generic card integrated on the board.  But it
has always worked fine up to this point without any of the
watch-the-widget-paint problems that many people whine about when running X. 
That anything spends a significant amount of resources drawing the title bar of
the window is a little nuts, IMHO.

>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

They both suck, I'm sure, especially by current standards.  But anyone who uses
GNOME a fair bit will realize the insanity when the CONTENTS of the *NAUTILUS*
window is fully drawn before the title bar finishes!  Yikes.

>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.

It will be interesting.