[wplug] Laptop Problem

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

|At any rate, I'm trying to do what I can with what I have. I've tried
|gnome, kde, and windowmaker with a variety of browsers. The window
|managers and the browsers all load and run fine, but they seem to have the
|same major issue with rendering graphics quickly and efficiently on a web
|page. I thought this may have had to do with the mozilla engine so I tried
|opera as well. It wasn't any better. I've also tossed around the idea of
|doing a minimal install with the base X libraries. Then using the Star
|Office desktop gui as the window manager for graphical interaction. I
|haven't tried it, yet, but I'm guessing that it won't make a difference if
|the problem is inherent with the underlying X libraries themselves.
|

have you tried galeon? it uses the mozilla engine to render the pages, but
is slimmed down quite a bit. i normally use it for most things. it also has
the nifty little input boxes at the top for google, freshmeat, etc. others
probably have them, but i've never noticed. galeon comes with redhat. 

to find out the _best_ a browser can preform try twm as the windows
manager. if the preformance under twm is poor, i don't think you can get
any better using gnome et. al.. if twm is ok try something a _little_
heaver like xfce, icewm, or blackbox.


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