Jeff, First of all, take everything I say with a grain of salt, I've been up for almost 24 hours now. What distro are you running? (It might make a difference) What flavor of GNOME are you using? Ximian GNOME is very smooth as things go. Both GNOME and KDE are pretty bloaty. For ex satan-worshippers (read: windows users) this is a definite plus. Using E will tax your machine if you are already using GNOME or KDE. (Maybe you cannot use E with KDE, but that is beside the point.) How much RAM do you have? How much swap do you have assigned? What is your processor type and clockspeed? What version is your kernel? Another tip. What kind of videocard do you have? I had a problem with games until it was pointed out to me that I might have set my color setting to be higher than my card could handle purely in hardware accelleration. So you might want to check your configuration files and your videocard and make sure you aren't running in software accelleration. If you have to use GNOME, then use a decent window manager like sawfish or something similar. Although I'd recommend KDE over GNOME. At least until I can compare the outcoming KDE 3.0 and GNOME 2.0 OK, my brain is segfaulting. Time to shut down before I blue-screen. -- Samir M. Nassar RedConcepts.NET - We Build Communities -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020222/adc15670/attachment.pgp