Speed Up Gnome In Most Distros

I have an older system and I am always on the lookot for little tweaks to gain some more performance out of my system. If you have a dual or quad core, these tips might not be of interest except to pass on to your friends with lesser CPU power.

• Use wireframe instead of rendering windows

When moving windows the system has to render the contents before moving it. If this is sluggish on your system open a terminal and type: (all one line)
gconftool -2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources true
This command will not work if you are using Compize but if you are you most likely don't need it.

• Force menus to open faster

This command will remove the small delay the system uses to draw the icons in the menus. It will require you to re-start the xserver.
 gtk-menu-popup-delay=0
Don't forget to reinitialize xserver by using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Your menus will pop open a bit faster with this tip.

This isn't a complete list by any means. If you have a great tip please share it in the comments.