On Wednesday 31 March 2004 05:43 pm, David Gethings wrote: > I am running KDE 3.2 on Gentoo too. Nice an snappy here! I does sound like > there is some KDE lib problem. If you haven't already try installing strace > and then run the KDE apps from the command line prepended with strace. e.g. > "> strace konqueror". strace will show you want the app is doing during the > delay. Hi David, What are the specs for your machine? > This might explain the problem to you (depending on you computing/C > programming skills). If not it will certainly help this list in diagnosing > your problem. As stated in my lengthy email, I already did that for about 7 applications. I posted the highlights in the email. If anyone wants to see the full file, I will post them on a web site. For reference, here is the relevant part of my previous mail: -----QUOTE----- 4. I ran strace -T on a number of applications and found nothing consistent for the apps. Here's a sampling of what I discovered. a. for kopete: read(3, "\2\5\0\2\"\0\0\0", 8) = 8 <8.204047> b. for khelpcenter: read(3, "\2\5\0\2\"\0\0\0", 8) = 8 <3.251070> read(3, khelpcenter: WARNING: Main template file name is empty, "\2\6\0\0027\0\0\0", 8) = 8 <16.990973> c. for korganizer: read(3, "\2\5\0\2&\0\0\0", 8) = 8 <3.301196> QMetaObject::findSignal:KListView: Conflict with QListView::doubleClicked(QListViewItem*,const QPoint&,int) "\2\6\0\0026\0\0\0", 8) = 8 <22.278729> d. for kwrite: Lines containing 'No such file or directory': 1693 e. for konqueror: Lines containing 'No such file or directory': 1743 -- is this normal? For reference, kopete's output has 123 and khelpcenter has 113 and korganizer has 111. For comparison, here is GIMP: Lines containing 'No such file or directory': 31 -----END QUOTE----- Brian -- ===== Brian Lee Yung Rowe (President, Chief Architect) Cenozoa Corporation 3 East 28th Street, 9th Floor, New York 10016 646 536 3066 ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.