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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Speed Up Gnome's Menus

This a simple 3 step tweak that really speeds up your gnome menus. It just removes the built in delay.

Step 1: Create A Text File
In a terminal type:
sudo gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0

Screenshot-red@red-desktop: ~


Step 2: Write The Text File
In the text file that is created paste:
gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0"| tee -a .gtkrc-2.0

Screenshot-*.gtkrc-2.0 (-home-red) - gedit

Now save and close

Step 3: Log out
When you log back in you should see a significant speed increase in you Gnome menus.
edited by pHreaksYcle

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Please edit this posting, it is broken...

redDEAD said...

fafifoernik

This post works, tested it on both my machines. pHreaK has used it and so has Muki. I think it might be a user error.

Alexey Zavizionov said...

Thanks, it works!

Unknown said...

After applying this tip, when I wanted to run an application from the terminal, I received the following error:
"doom@studios:~$ gvim
/home/doom/.gtkrc-2.0:3: error: scanner: unterminated string constant - e.g. `style'"

TIP: just replace the "gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0"| tee -a .gtkrc-2.0" with "gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0" in .gtkrc-2.0. You will still be able to experience faster gnome menus, without getting that error.

Unknown said...

No sorry, it is broken, it should read:

echo "gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0"| tee -a .gtkrc-2.0

But thanks for the tips anyway! They are very helpful!

ka2 said...

you shouldnt be using sudo for that should you? you editing a file in your home dir so there isnt any need for sudo to edit it.