Hi!
While LyX is fantastic in almost every way, it is slow... My LyX is slow at
pretty much everything. Typing, scrolling, moving the cursor around using arrow
keys, highlighting sections of texts, etc. Even for small documents.
This is strange, since my computer is quite fast. It is slow botjh when using
the proprietary NVIDIA and the open-source Nouveau graphics card driver. I'm
running LyX on an XFCE desktop on Debian Sid, using Linux 3.0.4 on a dual-core
Asus laptop.
It is not extremely slow, but slow enough to affect the user experience
negatively. And I'm not one of those users that need everything to be
lightning-fast :-) It is sort of like running modern programs on an old computer.
I have gone through these points:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PerformanceIssues
My comments on the points raised there:
* My LyX uses more CPU than X. Total CPU usage is less than 100%.
* I don't use the outliner or source view.
* Cursor movement is slow, at least compared to most other programs.
* The Ctrl+Alt+F1 trick has no effect on the slowness.
Any other ways to improve speed? I am willing to recompile LyX myself with
special options, or even modify the source code to deactivate stuff that is
inaccessible from the preferences, if someone would kindly guide me any
suggestion on what might help.
I will try to go back to the proprietary Nvidia driver now and check out the
"nvidia-settings" command given on the page I referred to above. Or perhaps the
newer Nvidia driver will allow LyX to speed up, if I'm lucky! :-)
Best regards
Torquil Sørensen
