Hi,
i installed on a very old laptop Fedora 19. Firstly i must say that fedora is my favorite OS especially for very old hardware as it works everywhere. so this laptop is for my son to watch cartoons and other children things.
when it runs KDE, cartoons are choppy... when it runs XFCE, cartoons runs like hell...so fast, so well when it installed Gnome (to test gnome 2 for example), well... it doesn't allow me to use the gnome shell at all... system display white screen and i must to log off and to chose another desktop
so how can i do to make KDE or gnome running movies like hell, like under XFCE desktop ? thx.
A.
On 11/21/2013 12:43 PM, Rafnews wrote:
Hi,
i installed on a very old laptop Fedora 19. Firstly i must say that fedora is my favorite OS especially for very old hardware as it works everywhere. so this laptop is for my son to watch cartoons and other children things.
when it runs KDE, cartoons are choppy... when it runs XFCE, cartoons runs like hell...so fast, so well when it installed Gnome (to test gnome 2 for example), well... it doesn't allow me to use the gnome shell at all... system display white screen and i must to log off and to chose another desktop
so how can i do to make KDE or gnome running movies like hell, like under XFCE desktop ? thx.
A.
XFCE is designed to be lightweight and use less system resources. KDE and Gnome would need more system resources to run, and since the old laptop may have limited system resources, you experience the negative impacts. So for an old laptop with limited resources, XFCE is the best choice.
They all work fine on a system with ample resources.
On 21.11.2013 08:42, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 11/21/2013 12:43 PM, Rafnews wrote:
Hi,
i installed on a very old laptop Fedora 19. Firstly i must say that fedora is my favorite OS especially for very old hardware as it works everywhere. so this laptop is for my son to watch cartoons and other children things.
when it runs KDE, cartoons are choppy... when it runs XFCE, cartoons runs like hell...so fast, so well when it installed Gnome (to test gnome 2 for example), well... it doesn't allow me to use the gnome shell at all... system display white screen and i must to log off and to chose another desktop
so how can i do to make KDE or gnome running movies like hell, like under XFCE desktop ? thx.
A.
XFCE is designed to be lightweight and use less system resources. KDE and Gnome would need more system resources to run, and since the old laptop may have limited system resources, you experience the negative impacts. So for an old laptop with limited resources, XFCE is the best choice.
They all work fine on a system with ample resources.
if i use KDE in failover mode, it runs like hell too :D i know this is an old laptop, but for my 3 years old son, it's enough to watch cartoons before sleeping :D
i just need to find a player that can shutdown the computer once movie is ended...
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:40:02 +0100 Rafnews raf.news@gmail.com wrote:
i just need to find a player that can shutdown the computer once movie is ended...
yum info xbmc https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XBMC
On 11/21/2013 02:10 PM, Rafnews wrote:
On 21.11.2013 08:42, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 11/21/2013 12:43 PM, Rafnews wrote:
Hi,
i installed on a very old laptop Fedora 19. Firstly i must say that fedora is my favorite OS especially for very old hardware as it works everywhere. so this laptop is for my son to watch cartoons and other children things.
when it runs KDE, cartoons are choppy... when it runs XFCE, cartoons runs like hell...so fast, so well when it installed Gnome (to test gnome 2 for example), well... it doesn't allow me to use the gnome shell at all... system display white screen and i must to log off and to chose another desktop
so how can i do to make KDE or gnome running movies like hell, like under XFCE desktop ? thx.
A.
XFCE is designed to be lightweight and use less system resources. KDE and Gnome would need more system resources to run, and since the old laptop may have limited system resources, you experience the negative impacts. So for an old laptop with limited resources, XFCE is the best choice.
They all work fine on a system with ample resources.
if i use KDE in failover mode, it runs like hell too :D i know this is an old laptop, but for my 3 years old son, it's enough to watch cartoons before sleeping :D
i just need to find a player that can shutdown the computer once movie is ended...
This had come up earlier in another thread. Have you tried it out ?
https://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_shut_down_computer
On 11/21/2013 03:40 AM, Rafnews wrote:
KDE in failover mode
You used this expression with reference to an old, slow computer. How do you run KDE in failover mode? (I'm not using Fedora--I have KDE on PCLinuxOS.) My pc is fast enough, but I'm curious, since I never saw that option anywhere. Or is that specific to Fedora?
--doug
On 21 November 2013 18:39, Doug dmcgarrett@optonline.net wrote:
On 11/21/2013 03:40 AM, Rafnews wrote:
KDE in failover mode
You used this expression with reference to an old, slow computer. How do you run KDE in failover mode? (I'm not using Fedora--I have KDE on PCLinuxOS.) My pc is fast enough, but I'm curious, since I never saw that option anywhere. Or is that specific to Fedora?
There's an option to start a KDE session in "failsafe" mode, you select it from the "session" menu on the login screen of whatever display manager you're using, typically called "KDE Plasma Workspace (failsafe session)"
IIUC it basically disables the KWIN compositing, i.e. it disables the KDE desktop effects.
--doug
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On 21.11.2013 17:39, Doug wrote:
On 11/21/2013 03:40 AM, Rafnews wrote:
KDE in failover mode
You used this expression with reference to an old, slow computer. How do you run KDE in failover mode? (I'm not using Fedora--I have KDE on PCLinuxOS.) My pc is fast enough, but I'm curious, since I never saw that option anywhere. Or is that specific to Fedora?
--doug
Hi Doug,
once i was in XFCE desktop, i installed with yum the KDE desktop environment and once logged off, you can select the desktop you want to use. i saw there 2 KDE (failover and classic).
HTH,
Alain
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Rafnews raf.news@gmail.com wrote:
On 21.11.2013 17:39, Doug wrote:
On 11/21/2013 03:40 AM, Rafnews wrote:
KDE in failover mode
You used this expression with reference to an old, slow computer. How do you run KDE in failover mode? (I'm not using Fedora--I have KDE on PCLinuxOS.) My pc is fast enough, but I'm curious, since I never saw that option anywhere. Or is that specific to Fedora?
--doug
Hi Doug,
once i was in XFCE desktop, i installed with yum the KDE desktop environment and once logged off, you can select the desktop you want to use. i saw there 2 KDE (failover and classic).
HTH,
Alain
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On 21 November 2013 09:13, Rafnews raf.news@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
i installed on a very old laptop Fedora 19. Firstly i must say that fedora is my favorite OS especially for very old hardware as it works everywhere. so this laptop is for my son to watch cartoons and other children things.
when it runs KDE, cartoons are choppy...
Try disabling the KDE desktop effects, from systemsettings -> Desktop Effects, then logout -> login.
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:13:41 +0100 Rafnews raf.news@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
i installed on a very old laptop Fedora 19. Firstly
Stick to the lightweights, wait till you run Xfce (my experience) on a 6\8 core with 32gb ram. The others will still be slow.
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