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I love 3ddesktop, it is a sexy app, but it cause my cursor to hang about once every five seconds. Google hasn't revealed any other complaints, so I was wondering ...
  1. 03-20-2005 #1
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    3ddesk slowing me down!

    I love 3ddesktop, it is a sexy app, but it cause my cursor to hang about once every five seconds. Google hasn't revealed any other complaints, so I was wondering how others fixed it?
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    I'm not sure, but do you have enough RAM to run it?
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  3. 03-20-2005 #3
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    is 512Mb enough?
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    Quote Originally Posted by amdocer
    is 512Mb enough?
    It should be, check that nothing is using a lot of your RAM with the command
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    and looking to see if anything is using a lot of your RAM.

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    nothing exceptional, i even killed all apps except kde and 3ddesk. it did this on my notebook with 512 of ram. is anyone else at least experienceing this?
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    why does this really simple app use 202,780 in vm? According to KDE System Guard
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    Quote Originally Posted by amdocer
    nothing exceptional, i even killed all apps except kde and 3ddesk. it did this on my notebook with 512 of ram. is anyone else at least experienceing this?
    On my Asus m6n I have the same problem. When I start 3ddesk it's ok but after first usage it starts to stop everything every 5 sec. I wonder if this is the frequency of capturing screen? My laptop has ATI Radeon 9700 and I'm working on binary drivers from ATI. When I turn off 3ddesk everythings goes back to normal. Is this ATI drivers fault?

    autoacquire 0 in config file helps.

    Check that: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-22095.html
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  8. 02-08-2007 #8
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    There are a lot of options in /etc/3ddesktop/3ddesktop.conf that will greatly improve performance (as well as the appearance) of 3ddesk. Most notably, as COoLoSER mentioned, setting the autoacquire to 0. Truthfully this option is a bit ridiculous anyway because it only captures your current desktop, which only really needs to be done at the time of switching.

    Changes to other options, such as texturesize and priority may also help.
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