On 11/21/2013 02:10 PM, Rafnews wrote: > On 21.11.2013 08:42, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: >> On 11/21/2013 12:43 PM, Rafnews wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> i installed on a very old laptop Fedora 19. Firstly i must say that >>> fedora is my favorite OS especially for very old hardware as it works >>> everywhere. >>> so this laptop is for my son to watch cartoons and other children >>> things. >>> >>> when it runs KDE, cartoons are choppy... >>> when it runs XFCE, cartoons runs like hell...so fast, so well >>> when it installed Gnome (to test gnome 2 for example), well... it >>> doesn't allow me to use the gnome shell at all... system display white >>> screen and i must to log off and to chose another desktop >>> >>> so how can i do to make KDE or gnome running movies like hell, like >>> under XFCE desktop ? >>> thx. >>> >>> A. >> XFCE is designed to be lightweight and use less system resources. KDE >> and Gnome would need more system resources to run, and since the old >> laptop may have limited system resources, you experience the negative >> impacts. So for an old laptop with limited resources, XFCE is the best >> choice. >> >> They all work fine on a system with ample resources. >> > if i use KDE in failover mode, it runs like hell too :D > i know this is an old laptop, but for my 3 years old son, it's enough to > watch cartoons before sleeping :D > > i just need to find a player that can shutdown the computer once movie > is ended... > This had come up earlier in another thread. Have you tried it out ? https://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_shut_down_computer -- Regards, Rejy M Cyriac (rmc) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
