FC15 or Gnome 3 Slowness

[James Board]

I just installed FC15 on a machine with a very fast and modern CPU. I'm running GNOME 3.
Often times, but not always, when when I type simple text at the command line, it takes as much as 5 seconds for the characters to appear on the screen. This makes it very difficult to use. Why is this happening and can I do anything to fix it?

Also, sometimes simple commands, like trying to close a window take 5 seconds, sometimes they happen instantly. What's going on here?

[jpollard]

gnome 3 seems to have a bug that causes it to suck up to 93% or so of your CPU.

If possible, test KDE and see if the same thing occurs. This might isolate the specific process causing the problem. Using top might show it, but remember that top itself sucks up a lot of CPU - which can alter the situation.

[markmental]

probably gnome 3. If I were you In would install xfce it's light and looks like gnome 2

[jackfruit501]

I also cannot login using gnome3 shell. KDE and XFCE login functioned well though I still miss gnome. How do you change the desktop and terminal default dark black background?

Jack

[James Board]

I used top and it didn't show any CPU-intensive processes. I looked at the load output from 'w' and it didn't show high load averages.

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Is there a quick and painless guide to switching to xfce? Can I install it from the FC15 Install DVD. How to I switch to xfce once it's installed?

[markmental]

Originally Posted by James Board

I used top and it didn't show any CPU-intensive processes. I looked at the load output from 'w' and it didn't show high load averages.

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Is there a quick and painless guide to switching to xfce? Can I install it from the FC15 Install DVD. How to I switch to xfce once it's installed?

You will have to download the xfce live cd to install from the dvd but in gnome you can type in

su
yum groupinstall xfce

[jackfruit501]

Hi Mark,

I am using XFCE desktop. How do I put the panel to the bottom instead of the default top? Anyone know where I can get support for Nvidia-96XXX driver support for F15 so Genome3 can be used again.

Jack

[TheNosh]

Originally Posted by jackfruit501

Hi Mark,

I am using XFCE desktop. How do I put the panel to the bottom instead of the default top? Anyone know where I can get support for Nvidia-96XXX driver support for F15 so Genome3 can be used again.

Jack

You should have started your own thread for this, but it's easy enough to answer.

Right click the panel, and go to Panel Preferences.




Unlock the panel.




Then drag it wherever you like using the handles on the ends.

[jackfruit501]

A belated thank you Nosh. It works.

Jack