[Wine] Wine painfully slow in KDE, but not GNOME

[Paul Romanyszyn]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Hi! I have an FC5 system installed with gnome 2.14 kde 3.5 and wine 
> 0.9.13. I installed seamonkey on wine to see how it works, and it works 
> at full speed under gnome, but not kde. Under KDE it is so slow that if 
> I type in the location bar, I have to wait about a second to see each 
> character. Gnome, as I said a second ago, works as fast as the linux 
> version. Is KDE running a bunch of stuff that eats computer power, or is 
> my computer too slow, or is GNOME just more efficient? Thanks!
> -Steven
> 
By default kde installs kat. It is a file indexer and if you have lots 
of files and a big disk it eats resources and cpu cycles for many hours 
until it indexes everything.
Use top to see if it is running after you boot into kde.
I just uninstalled it.
Paul