KDE Laggy in Fresh F15

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/06/2011 10:12 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
>
>> I just did a fresh install of Fedora 15 x86_64 with KDE.
>>
>> KDE is mostly unusable in Fedora 15 while it was fine in Fedora
>> 14 (with nvidia driver).
>>
>> The display seems to freeze for a few seconds every few seconds.
> nvidia's driver is historically optimized primarily for opengl, 2d/xrender
> not so much.  The latter, is used extensively in kde's default oxygen
> style/theming.  you could try switching away from oxygen widget theme, see
> if that helps any,
> systemsettings->application appearance->style
> and choose some widget style other than Oxygen, say Plastique
>
> another stab would be to switch to some plasma theme that uses less or no
> translucency,
> systemsettings->workspace appearance->Desktop Theme
> and choose something other than "Air" or "Oxygen"
>
>

FWIW, I have a GeForce GT 230 and I'm running the 270.41.19 driver 
package that I installed myself.  Meaning, I didn't use rpmfusion or 
another repository.  I am using the Oxygen Style as well as the Oxygen 
Theme and I've no performance issues whatsoever.

Ed