[ltp] Lightening Debian

[cr]

On Tue, 03 May 2005 00:22, André Wyrwa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 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?
>
> No, only replacing the window manager won't do it (and besides you can
> change the WM gnome uses using gconf-editor).
>
> I'd recommend using a good light WM like fluxbox, pekwm or windowmaker,
> leaving the gnome stuff installed, but not launching gnome-session at
> all. This way you'll get rid of gnome-session, gnome-panel and the
> nautilus desktop, which are performance killers. Make sure that you
> still start gconfd and the gnome-settings-daemon with X, so that your
> gnome apps will work properly. Also go to the gconf-editor once and
> adjust nautilus not to manage the desktop by default (there's a setting
> for that).

Many thanks for that, I'll try putting it into practice.

> You won't need to get rid of GDM, by the way, since it doesn't do much
> once your X session is launched.
>
> André.

Well, at the moment (with X overloaded), it is more convenient to not log in 
to X.   When X is fixed (hopefully), I'll still leave GDM  'killed' since I 
prefer a text login anyway - but that's just personal preference.

Thanks for the info.

cr