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#1 2009-09-17 02:23:41

Haptic
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[SOLVED]Virtual Desktops

I remember reading something about reducing the number of virtual desktops to free some memory, but I seem to have lost the link to it.  Can someone explain?

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#2 2009-09-17 02:44:55

foutrelis
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Re: [SOLVED]Virtual Desktops

I highly doubt that reducing the number of workspaces in your desktop environment could affect the memory use significantly (a few kilobytes at best?).

If you want to try it anyway, you'd need to specify which desktop environment you're using (Gnome, KDE or something else?).

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#3 2009-09-17 02:50:55

SamC
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Re: [SOLVED]Virtual Desktops

I'm relatively sure that he means virtual consoles, which would be done (I think) by editing /etc/inittab .

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#4 2009-09-17 03:00:20

foutrelis
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Re: [SOLVED]Virtual Desktops

SamC wrote:

I'm relatively sure that he means virtual consoles, which would be done (I think) by editing /etc/inittab .

If you are correct and he is indeed talking about virtual consoles, then the memory occupied by a few additional agetty processes is definitely negligible. tongue

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#5 2009-09-17 03:00:40

Haptic
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Re: [SOLVED]Virtual Desktops

SamC wrote:

I'm relatively sure that he means virtual consoles, which would be done (I think) by editing /etc/inittab .

I wasn't sure of my terms sad  This was what I meant.

Edit: Alright.

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#6 2009-09-17 04:31:45

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Re: [SOLVED]Virtual Desktops

If your questions been solved, please add [solved] to your thread title (edit opening post).

I don't think you can even buy, borrow, or steal machines today with an amount of RAM on which a few bytes makes any difference =p


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