> First of all, take everything I say with a grain of salt, I've been up > for almost 24 hours now. hey, me too. :) > What distro are you running? (It might make a difference) Red Hat 7.1 > What flavor of GNOME are you using? Ximian GNOME is very smooth as > things go. as far as the flavor, what ever comes with RH 7.1. > Both GNOME and KDE are pretty bloaty. For ex satan-worshippers (read: > windows users) this is a definite plus. Using E will tax your machine if > you are already using GNOME or KDE. (Maybe you cannot use E with KDE, > but that is beside the point.) > > How much RAM do you have? 1024MB > How much swap do you have assigned? 1807272 > What is your processor type and clockspeed? AMD AthlonXP 1700+ > What version is your kernel? SGI 2.4.2-5SGI kernel (see video card for reason) > Another tip. What kind of videocard do you have? I had a problem with > games until it was pointed out to me that I might have set my color > setting to be higher than my card could handle purely in hardware > accelleration. So you might want to check your configuration files and > your videocard and make sure you aren't running in software > accelleration. SGI VR3 Quadro 64mb. This is why I'm running SGI's kernel. But I know that I have the same issues with the 2.4.17 and 2.4.2-2 kernels. > If you have to use GNOME, then use a decent window manager like sawfish > or something similar. Although I'd recommend KDE over GNOME. At least > until I can compare the outcoming KDE 3.0 and GNOME 2.0 > > OK, my brain is segfaulting. Time to shut down before I blue-screen I'm trying KDE now. It does seem to have much smoother mouse movement. There are things I don't like, but I'll probably go with it until I find out more about the KDE3.0/Gnome2.0 debate. Thanks for your help. One more question. How do I change the default enviroment in my login manager? it's currently defaulting to Gnome, but I'd like to change it to KDE. I'm assuming there's a config file for this, but I'm not sure where, or which one. Thanks again. Jeff