Fedora 8 slowness

[Dick Seabrook]

On Jan 20, 2008 7:03 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:16 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:13:14 -0500
> > Dick Seabrook <dick.seabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone else using F8 noticed a slowness to open the
> > > desktop during user login?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > >  Maybe it's my imagination
> >
> > Could be.
> >
> > > but it seems to take a few seconds longer each time I bring up
> > > F8 and log in as a normal user.
> >
> > Perhaps you're loading something on login that takes a few seconds to
> > initialize.  Check your sessions list and see if that's what it is.
>
> Mine used to be as slow as pig-iron until I figured out that the
> previous session was being saved and then restored upon the next login,
> due to a setting in one little obscure check-box. That was back in FC5
> or 6. But, I haven't seen it on by default since though. I'm sure I
> pushed the red button not fully understanding what it would do. I have
> my moments. :) Ric
>
> That was it!!  Sessions was set to "Default last session" and I
changed it to Gnome and made that the default and now it's
positively zippy!  Thanks!
Dick S.

-- 
Dick Seabrook ~ Anne Arundel Community College
http://enterprise.aacc.edu/~rhs ~ Speed the Net!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20080120/e207847e/attachment-0001.htm>