On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Sukru TIKVES wrote: > Nevertheless as others mentioned it may be a window manager (metacity is > famed as "slow") or a Gtk2 issue (Gtk2 is getting faster with each release > aster 2.0). Is it possible that some windowing libraries are responsible for slow re-drawing. Re-sizing firefox seems slow, but resizing any native kde application is quick. resizing adobe acrobat reader is amazing slow, and moving the window around the screen leaves a tracing streak.