[ltp] Lightening Debian

[Aaron Mulder]

	I used to use WindowMaker because it was super lightweight
(compared to GNOME and KDE).  But I think I still had well over 64MB at
the time.  IIRC, the X process ended up taking about 80MB for 3 screens
(WM was also one of the first ones I found with good multi-monitor support
:)

	I'm not sure to what degree killing daemons will help.  I mean, if
they're not active then they probably just live in swap anyway, and if
they are active, then you may not want to kill them.  But not running one 
of the big "environments" will probably cut down on the daemons anyway.

Aaron

On Tue, 3 May 2005, cr wrote:
> I've just installed Debian Sarge on my  Thinkpad i1200 (550MHz, 64MB RAM) and 
> it's very overloaded in X with Metacity as the default window manager, it 
> just about grinds to a halt.   I'd hoped it wouldn't, since Debian Woody 
> (with Sawfish as default window manager) runs quite happily, even apps like 
> Opera, Quanta, Gimp etc without a trace of sluggishness.   
> 
> I've killed (renamed)  gdm so I now have a command line login, so I can 
> fiddle around and break things with ease and convenience   :)
> 
> Two ideas occur to me:
> 
> 1.  Load a lighter window manager.   Fluxbox (IIRC) is available on the CD's, 
> and I've downloaded Windowmaker and Xfce from debian.org.   
> 
> But should I just change   X-window-manager  and leave  X-session-manager  
> pointing to Gnome?
> 
> 2.   Kill a few daemons.   Desktop-Linux.net suggests doing that, but the 
> apps it mentions (Ksysv and Gnome-system-tools) are of course GUI-based, and 
> the other one, chkconfig, is apparently rpm-based.     Are there any non-X  
> debian equivalents?   
> 
> Am I heading in the right direction here?    Or am I missing something? (very 
> probable :)      Any comments welcomed.
> 
> cr
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