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#1 2009-08-25 08:22:22
- Buziaczek
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Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
Good morning everyone. I have a question to everyone about leightweight desktop environment. The two desktop environments are:
LXDE - www.lxde.org
XFCE - www.xfce.org
Couldyou tell which of these two desktop environments is the best and the the fastest in your mind. Please contact with me. For every kind of help I will really thank everybody. Regerds and goodbye.
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#2 2009-08-25 08:24:51
- SpeedVin
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Re: Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
Hello.
LXDE is faster/lighter but If you want something really light try WM like Openbox,Fluxbox,EvilWM,Tiling WM and any other.
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#3 2009-08-25 08:31:05
- flamelab
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Re: Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
Xfce4. I had it installed on a very old Debian Stable installation with 256 MBytes of RAM, and with HAL the most demanding daemon running in the background, it consumed (at most) around ~80 Mbytes of RAM. The same would happen in Arch I suppose, but I haven't tried that. The most lightweight environment I have used for most is Awesome WM, with which, at login, I have 120 MB RAM usage.
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#4 2009-08-25 08:42:57
- Murray_B
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Re: Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
In my opinion you shouldn't look only for a lightweight DE. You should think about the needed features and after that you can have a look on the lightweightness or the look Lightweightness or beauty should never be the primary reason for a program...
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#5 2009-08-25 08:51:30
- blasse
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Re: Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lig … t_Software
Take some time and read. Choose the one that best suits your needs.
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#6 2009-08-25 09:44:32
- hrobeers
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Re: Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
The most lightweight environment I have used for most is Awesome WM, with which, at login, I have 120 MB RAM usage.
I have 120mb ram usage at login running KDE4.3!
In openbox it is 80mb. (had debian+openbox on an old imac wich used 40mb ram) It's all relative!
LXDE is the lightest DE I know! It is openbox with some tools bundeled.
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#7 2009-08-25 09:50:49
- Rasi
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Re: Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
another give-me-your-opinion-cause-i-dont-have-any thread?
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#8 2009-08-25 10:46:25
- flamelab
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Re: Ligjtweoght Desktop Environment
flamelab wrote:The most lightweight environment I have used for most is Awesome WM, with which, at login, I have 120 MB RAM usage.
I have 120mb ram usage at login running KDE4.3!
In openbox it is 80mb. (had debian+openbox on an old imac wich used 40mb ram) It's all relative!LXDE is the lightest DE I know! It is openbox with some tools bundeled.
Well, I have a looooot of daemons running in the background xD that's why.
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