I've finally decided to get back to work on my shops, so that involves heavy use of the GIMP. However, on my brand-new System76 Kudu Professional laptop, I'm running into a problem my 3-year-old HP dv7 laptop didn't have: SLOWNESS.
Keep this in mind: I ALWAYS have SeaMonkey running. I almost always have Konsole running. I occasionally have Dolphin running. So, at least, we're talking SM by itself, or SM/Konsole/Dolphin together. Then I open the GIMP. And that's when the painful slowness starts.
It's beyond slow...beyond exasperating.
After firing up the GIMP I open 14-16 image files; these are templates I've made; they're all xcf or png files to start with, then the new image is saved as png; the largest is 8400x5600, 200DPI; the remaining files are smaller in terms of their dimensions, but they're 300DPI, not 200. Working with the 8400x5600 image, it's like trying to walk through frozen molasses. If not for the fact that my pointer still moves and/or the clock still works, I'd think the whole system had frozen up.
Now, if I start fresh, opening the GIMP and nothing else, NO PROBLEM! It's fast and wonderful, as I'm used to. So it's a combination of SM and GIMP, as far as I can tell. But I don't know why. Or what to do about it. Everything's current on this laptop, i.e., all system updates and patches.
Any ideas? Sure, I've thought about doing it by only having the GIMP running, but that's not how I want to do it, it's not what I'm used to, and it's not what I like!
Keep this in mind: I ALWAYS have SeaMonkey running. I almost always have Konsole running. I occasionally have Dolphin running. So, at least, we're talking SM by itself, or SM/Konsole/Dolphin together. Then I open the GIMP. And that's when the painful slowness starts.
It's beyond slow...beyond exasperating.
After firing up the GIMP I open 14-16 image files; these are templates I've made; they're all xcf or png files to start with, then the new image is saved as png; the largest is 8400x5600, 200DPI; the remaining files are smaller in terms of their dimensions, but they're 300DPI, not 200. Working with the 8400x5600 image, it's like trying to walk through frozen molasses. If not for the fact that my pointer still moves and/or the clock still works, I'd think the whole system had frozen up.
Now, if I start fresh, opening the GIMP and nothing else, NO PROBLEM! It's fast and wonderful, as I'm used to. So it's a combination of SM and GIMP, as far as I can tell. But I don't know why. Or what to do about it. Everything's current on this laptop, i.e., all system updates and patches.
Any ideas? Sure, I've thought about doing it by only having the GIMP running, but that's not how I want to do it, it's not what I'm used to, and it's not what I like!
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