Hi all,
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:06 +0100, Leontine Binchy wrote:
> Stephen Browne within the desktop group is already looking into this. We
> are still at the very early stages so we do not have anything to
> actually show yet.
Cool! In the meantime, there's a few things we can do to trim down the
desktop for small systems I think.
> > tweak some of the fonts to get things visible on the 1024x600 display
Hah, luxury :-) My netbook[1] is 800x480 but running nv_111b just fine.
Here's how I try to maximise screen real estate:
* Run compiz (the Expo plugin and Scale plugin are wonderful)
* Bind fullscreen to alt+F11, for when application itself doesn't have a
fullscreen option[2]
* Use Clear Looks windows borders with 6pt fonts in the title
* Use "Text beside icons"
* remove the Menu Bar, replacing with Main Menu
* customize Thunderbird a bit
* a single 22px panel at the top of the screen
* tweak the gnome session to not run stuff I don't use (tracker, etc.)
I've tried to remove as many SMF services as possible to speed up
booting - I've attached the output of 'svcs -a' on my machine, in case
this helps anyone.
I took some quick stop-watch timings just now. Shutdown from hitting the
"shutdown" button in the gnome gui to power-off, takes 19 seconds, I'd
love startup to be as fast, admittedly this is a slow machine - I'm sure
modern Atom based netbooks would be a lot faster. Would anyone with a
faster netbook be interested in reproducing these tests?
0:00 power on
0:11 prints grub menu
0:30 prints hostname
1:19 gdm prompt
1:50 functional desktop with dhcp address obtained over WPA wifi
>From S3 suspend, we have:
0:00 power on
0.07 desktop
0.20 wifi dhcp address obtained
which is really excellent imho.
cheers,
tim
[1] An eeepc 4g 701, with 2gb ram booting from the internal ssd,
with 11 zfs datasets, 7 of which are on an internal SD card (but
leaving / and ~ on the fast SSD) This is not a fast machine: a 900mhz
Celeron M down-clocked to 630mhz, but quite usable for email, web
browsing and running gnome-terminals
[2] System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects->Preferences
Extra WM Actions->Toggle Fullscreen
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