Posted on May 4, 2008 by firmit
I have succesfully installed LXDE - Linux X11 Desktop Environment. I have updated the packages in the repo’s from source, and are looking at a 45.62 MB ram usage upon startup!
Update: Ram usage after firing up: 39.98 MB ram usage!
From Ubuntu to Debian
My main goal was to use the Ubuntu minimal install as a base/core [...]
Filed under: Debian, Linux, X | Tagged: conky, Debian, etch, lenny, lex, LXDE, sid, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 1, 2008 by firmit
The most usefull post: howto configure ‘xterm’.
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by firmit
A beautifull, lightweight, highly customizable X-system monitor - Conky. Works on my Xfce and LXDE Xubuntu install.
Add to Start-up Applications “$ conky -d”, which in Xubuntu will be located here: ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=Conky Monitor
Comment=System Monitor
Exec=conky -d
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false
My ~/.conkyrc (borrowed mostly from a post on ubuntuforums.org): :
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont HandelGotD:size=9
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by firmit
I am sold - there is no way I am going back! The LXDE is just amazing!
LXDE is a full desktop environment with OpenBox as window-manager. And believe me - it’s fast! My first run was under Xubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Latitude P4 1.8GHz 1GB ram. It handles Gnome, KDE, Xfce pretty well with [...]
Filed under: Linux, Ubuntu, X | Tagged: DE, desktop environment, Linux, LXDE, wm, X | 6 Comments »
Posted on April 27, 2008 by firmit
I had to try - and it worked perfectly! I got tired of the Xubuntu-usplash loader - then I found this:
http://u-fingerprint.sourceforge.net/
Works like a charm - nice to look at too Need to edit your grub file - at your own risk! I installed the startupmanager as a workaround. There I am able to change [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2008 by firmit
A couple of distros have recently caught my attention.
Wolvix - a LiveDistro run from cd or usbflash
OzOs - ubuntu-based distro using the e17 wm/de
I will make a test run of these in VirtualBox under my current Ubuntu 8.04 beta.
Wolvix
This surprised me! A slackware based LiveDistro which comes in two version; cub - the smallest of [...]
Filed under: Linux, X | Tagged: distros, ozos, wolvix, livedistro, e17 | No Comments »
Posted on March 31, 2008 by firmit
On an old machine with few resources, you really should consider fluxbuntu. This “ubuntu”-distro is really fast with the fluxbox windowmanager.
If the X does not fit your needs, you should try Xfce if Gnome (or KDE) runs slowly on your computer. It has a whole lot of nice feature without using up the computer’s resources.
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