On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:51 +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > I use GNOME all the time, and gedit just took 6s to be usable (counting > from click on 'Text Editor' in the Accessories menu). > > This is a Pentium 4 Mobile at 2.8 MHz and 512 MB of RAM (filled at > approximately 75%). Aside from the stuff Owen suggested, are you perhaps loading certain plugins that cause the slow down, or loading a very large file? You might try experimenting with the plugins especially to see if one of them is causing it. I only have the spell checker enabled and gedit loaded within 1s cold.
