Metacity "reduced resources" mode
% gconftool-2 -t bool -s /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources
true
% metacity-message restart
This turns off opaque resize/move, animations and so on. My 3-year-old work machine has an expensive-but-useless graphics card that is only fast when used with proprietary drivers. Since I only display Firefox, rxvt and emacs it's not worth the hassle to install them. This gives a nice speedup.
posted Thu 16 Dec 2004 in /software/gnome | link
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