I am trying fluxbox now but so I installed it with YUM but how do i switch to it and make it the default?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Mitchell<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rod Smith</b>
<<a href="mailto:mythtv@rodsbooks.com">mythtv@rodsbooks.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:42, Mitch Gore wrote:
<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Just curious what everyone suggest on speeding up booting and performance<br>> in the area of the window manager and desktop environment?<br>><br>> Currently i am using GNOME and MetaCity as it was just the default on FC6.
<br>> Any better suggestions?<br><br>GNOME is a desktop environment, and a rather big one, too. Even on a desktop<br>system, I'm not a fan of GNOME; IMHO, it's a bloated pig of a package. If<br>you're using the computer as a MythTV box only, then GNOME may be the single
<br>worst possible choice for a boot environment; you're taking time to load<br>stuff you never use, and that stuff is chewing up RAM that would be better<br>devoted to caches, MythPlugin programs, etc.<br><br>Check <a href="http://www.xwinman.org">
http://www.xwinman.org</a> for information on many window managers for<br>Linux. Most of the "bare" window managers will be better choices than GNOME<br>(or any other desktop environment) for a MythTV-only system. Mine is running
<br>openbox, simply because the Ubuntu install guide I followed suggested it.<br>Others I've used in the past which I know to be slim include IceWM, wm2, and<br>fvwm.<br><br>The window manager you use won't make much difference to MythTV operation,
<br>except to the extent that it consumes RAM. If you frequently shut down<br>mythfrontend and perform operations in the Linux, GUI, though, the window<br>manager may be important. For instance, if you shut down MythTV and run
<br>mplayer directly or use some non-Myth DVD-authoring software, you might care<br>about the window manager's features. If you don't do such things often,<br>though, just pick a window manager that doesn't consume a lot of resources,
<br>and stay away from GNOME, KDE, or even XFce.<br><br>--<br>Rod Smith<br><a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com">http://www.rodsbooks.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>
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