Tweaks for KDE4 ?

pinguin74 · 12-14-10, 09:50 PM

Hi there,

I use KDE 4.4.4 and have a GForce 210M in an Acer notebook. I wonder, are there some valuable tweaks for xorg.conf to make KDE performing better or to make it more stable?

Thanx!

ShiningArcanine · 12-15-10, 10:56 PM

Disable KDE's blur effect. There is a memory leak bug in it that affects your version of KDE:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242457

pinguin74 · 12-15-10, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShiningArcanine

Disable KDE's blur effect. There is a memory leak bug in it that affects your version of KDE:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242457

Hmm..... I use Compiz and Emerald for 3D desktop effects, so I may not be affected by this bug... nevertheless, thanx for that hint!

Eazy1 · 12-16-10, 12:38 PM

There are no blur effect available in kde 4.4. Blur effect is only available from kde 4.5 and it has a great impact on performance (in my experience). Guess Nvidia and KDE team is blaming each other as usual.

Drolfrawd · 12-16-10, 01:38 PM

Not meaning to be silly here, but have you tried using gnome instead.

LydianKnight · 12-16-10, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drolfrawd

Not meaning to be silly here, but have you tried using gnome instead.

This. GTK+ is teh awesomeness

Sean_W · 12-16-10, 02:54 PM

Kwin in KDE4 is a lot more integrated unlike Compiz is in GNOME, since it's not the window manger for the DE, distros just make it so. It wasn't too long ago people complained about Compiz performance issues with NVIDIA too.

I'm not sure if they fixed the Oxygen deco bug that hurt performance. Try a different window decoration than the default Oxygen one.

KDE · 12-16-10, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drolfrawd

Not meaning to be silly here, but have you tried using gnome instead.

gnome and GTK are crap.

12-14-10, 09:50 PM	#1
pinguin74 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 36	Tweaks for KDE4 ? Hi there, I use KDE 4.4.4 and have a GForce 210M in an Acer notebook. I wonder, are there some valuable tweaks for xorg.conf to make KDE performing better or to make it more stable? Thanx!

12-15-10, 10:56 PM	#2
ShiningArcanine Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 106	Re: Tweaks for KDE4 ? Disable KDE's blur effect. There is a memory leak bug in it that affects your version of KDE: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242457

12-16-10, 12:38 PM	#4
Eazy1 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 9	Re: Tweaks for KDE4 ? There are no blur effect available in kde 4.4. Blur effect is only available from kde 4.5 and it has a great impact on performance (in my experience). Guess Nvidia and KDE team is blaming each other as usual.

12-16-10, 01:38 PM	#5
Drolfrawd Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,787	Re: Tweaks for KDE4 ? Not meaning to be silly here, but have you tried using gnome instead.

12-16-10, 02:54 PM	#7
Sean_W Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,438	Re: Tweaks for KDE4 ? Kwin in KDE4 is a lot more integrated unlike Compiz is in GNOME, since it's not the window manger for the DE, distros just make it so. It wasn't too long ago people complained about Compiz performance issues with NVIDIA too. I'm not sure if they fixed the Oxygen deco bug that hurt performance. Try a different window decoration than the default Oxygen one.