On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:59:40PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: | Hi all, | | I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a | brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow | when it came to GNOME-ified apps. The control panel and gmc took their | sweet time in launching and moving from section to section under the | control panel was equally slow. I decided to take a look at the
I don't know why it would be slow for you. It is nice and fast for me. I really like GNOME (with Sawfish as window manager). | console I started the X session from and there was a screenfull of | error messages like so: | | Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find handler containing data (0xE23EADO) I ignore these. I see lots of similar messages from a lot of GTK/GNOME apps. They are just warnings, but the app probably ought to check the condition first so you don't get the warning. | Interspersed were a few of these messages: | | /bin/sh: esd: command not found | | Does anyone know what might be the culprit for the first? And just | what is esd? I searched the package directories on the Debian site and | came up empty handed. It is that sound server thing? Yes "Enlightened Sound Daemon". I don't have a sound card in this box, but I used to have one and it could only play 1 sound at a time. So if I had WinAmp going, and I was working on a presentation in PowerPoint, I wouldn't notice that ppt had a default sound to go with the animation. I found out when I started the presentation in class (true story!). When you use ESD, it controls the sound card (/dev/dsp usually, I think). Then apps that want to play a sound request it from esd, and esd mixes all the wavs together so that your sound card plays all of them. Reallly cool! I guess you don't have it installed. Try the search on file names in packages. -D
