xfce, gnome and kde

[Rafnews]

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.

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Rafnews <raf.news(a)gmail.com&gt; 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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[Rafnews]

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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 21 November 2013 18:39, Doug <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net&gt; 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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[Doug]

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

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[Frank Murphy]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:40:02 +0100
Rafnews <raf.news(a)gmail.com&gt; 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


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[Rejy M Cyriac]

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

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[Rafnews]

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...

[Frank Murphy]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:13:41 +0100
Rafnews <raf.news(a)gmail.com&gt; 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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[Ahmad Samir]

On 21 November 2013 09:13, Rafnews <raf.news(a)gmail.com&gt; 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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[Rejy M Cyriac]

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.

-- 
Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)