Inkscape running very slow

[Erwin Criddle]

Hi,
I have noticed that Inkscape seems to run very slow. e.g. 6 secs to load Fill and stroke dialog.

Here is the computer's spec:
Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHZ
Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti200
1GB Ram
80GB HDD

Any ideas?

[smartboyathome]

try running it in the terminal, get any error messages?

[Erwin Criddle]

When I tried running Inkscape in the terminal, it didn't show any error messages.

[smartboyathome]

Ok, are you using any images with it and switching windows? It takes time to render images in Inkscape.

[Erwin Criddle]

I'm not using any images just shapes and gradients. (SVGs)

[Erwin Criddle]

Anyone got a solution?

[banago]

Anyone got a solution?

I have a idea. Try to give Inkscape a whole workspace and do not open atything else there. This might make it run faster. Let's hope! :)

To have a idea of workspaces, have a look at this nice clip (http://ubuntuclips.org/videos_30.html).

Good Luck!

Banago

[Half-Left]

Your better off making the document size smaller, if you making icons then something like 64x64. Turing off compiz may help as well.

[Erwin Criddle]

Thanks guys for your tips. But I need to use A4 as the size of the document.
Running inkscape without anything else didn't help and neither did switching off compiz. :-(