On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:24 AM, David Lowe <doctorjl...@verizon.net>wrote:
> On 13 Aug, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > > > ?!? I didn't think trackpads from this era were able to recognize > multiple fingers. > > > > Oh, wait which exact model do you have ? mine is early 2005. > > Mine is late 2003 [1 GHz]. A few years ago one of my coworkers > brought a MacBook by for comparison. His was using gestures [two finger > scrolling, etc.] and mine wasn't even though we both had Leopard installed; > therefore i assumed that the difference was hardware rather than software. > Might try it anyway. Sometimes apple doesn't support even though the feature works. For instance my ancient powerbook didn't even support tapping unless you installed a special 3rd party extension in macOS. > > > > By the way, for speed, I am using the LXDE desktop environment. There > is now an lxde cd, as well as a netinstall option for it. much faster and > less resource consumptive than the other alternatives. > > > > Yeah, i might look into that. Presumably i don't need to install > from scratch, so i'll search for an LXDE package. > > > > its a little tough to remove gnome and then put in lxde to replace it. > easier I think if you are just getting started to just start over. It is a > LOT faster though, plus saving a lot of RAM. > > Installing LXDE was easy. I didn't feel the need to remove gnome, > as the linux partition is 75 GiBi and isn't in any immediate danger of > filling up. At login i can choose whether to go into an LXDE session, > gnome, or KDE. Since each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses, > i'll use different sessions for different things. In my initial foray into > LXDE i couldn't find everything that i knew how to use in gnome, so it's > nice to be able to go back and use it as needed. Choice is good, and those > other interface components shouldn't be initialized/loaded in a LXDE session > - they won't slow me down just by being on the hard drive. > > Hmmm, how do you do this exactly ? When I was on a foray into Ubuntu I had a terrible time with this. However recently installed a Debian on a 500mhz Pentium3 I made it to use "startx" from console into a simple window manager only then if I start a Terminal I get LXDE by running lxpanel app. I guess there's like gnome-session maybe (but if I installed this it would take over control, even if I killed it would just restart itself)? And I am surprised, you find even KDE to be not too slow ? Do you do optimized g4 builds ? Do you run KDE apps or just the Desktop ? I tried Krita on a 550 g4 and it was so slow I didn't think it would help even at 1.5ghz... although Scribus (a kde-aware app) works ok, w/out the desktop I have no drag 'n drop... What I do is run gnome and kde applications which bring in their libraries, but do not require the desktop environment. This saves me much RAM ...
