> Well, I'm still fighting my new laptop. I have tried just about everything I
> can think of to stop the pauses.
> Originally, I thought it was arts, but I've tried several different versions
> of arts, and that's not it. I've tried building excessively stripped kernels,
> with and without acpi and that doesn't matter. I have disabled apm on the
> hard drive so it is spinning constantly, but that didn't work.
>
> Finally, tonight, I stumbled apon a solution. Gnome.
> I installed Dropline Gnome for slackware. DVD's play fine, no pausing,
> everything seems to be quite okay in Gnome.
> So now, do I switch to Gnome, and have to find all the programs to replace my
> beloved KDE programs, or do I keep trying to figure out what part of KDE is
> causing these system hangs every few seconds?
>
> I'm at a loss now. I really hate to abandon all my years of KDE so I can
> become a Gnome guy. I can't find any good editors like Kate, and I sincerely
> love Kmail. Evolution I just can't stand...
>
> Is there anyone that is real familiar with KDE internals that might be able to
> tell me what is causing the .25 second hangs every few seconds while in KDE ?
>
> Like, if I watch a DVD with xine, or play Quake3 it will pause and burp every
> few seconds.. I guess hiccup is the right word.
> In Gnome it doesn't do this. I can only imagine it is something KDE is
> running. I've noticed with top -d .5  'kinit' seems to pop up every other
> second and immediately goes away. Is it polling for something???
>
> I don't want to give up my Kate. Are there any good replacements for it in
> Gnome? I do a lot of perl, c, bash, html, php and other stuff. I love the
> syntax hilighting. Any ideas?


Have you tried fluxbox? It has support for KDE programs.

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