On Tuesday 27 October 2009 17:58:36 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Do plasmoids on activities that are not being used eat > up cpu capacity? > I think it depends what they are. Those that dynamically update, such as weather plasmoids, probably do. Those that are fairly static, like the picture frame, probably eat very little. You may have to run a monitor plasmoid (personally I still like to have gkrellm running) while you do some tests. I notice that whenever I check top I see X and kwin as the top two contenders, though individually they don't seem too bad. I should state, though, that this laptop is 4.5 years old, so it's not too surprising that it's sometimes working hard. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091027/f0eb1388/attachment.bin