On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:58, civileme wrote: > > The names are: > > > > * dynamicProbing > > * dynamicAdding > > * dynamicProcessing > > > Well right-click on those icons and select properties and find out what you > can... Also, look in ~/Desktop and look at the files and dump them at us. > That seems dumb enough that I really want to know. >
When I "recreate" them, I'll blast 'em online to y'all; rather strange... > You are correct, kdm and gdm and even xdm have an overhead for starting apps > and it can be very heavy for the more recent ones who want to offer services > an experinced person like yourself does not need (cause you already know to > type "shutdown -h now" in a terminal to quit or -r reboot to a different OS) > ...or "reboot" ...or "poweroff"....(have my druthers to login from a console anyways - better for troubleshooting and mucking around with stuff...keeps the wife and kids away when they see a console login as well... > I made a little convenience program for those who like to start in runlevel 3 > and login there then use a window manager.... it is called Xtart and it is > but a few lines of Python code. It should be available under 9.0. > > urpmi Xtart > > should fetch it > ...been using it since I started mucking around with MDK 9.0 - couldn't live without it (well, I could, but life would be so much more boring). > Using Xtart and appropriate files placed in /etc/X11/wmsession.d you can > nominate other programs for WM status. I have used emacs for that, and it is > interesting, almost as amusing as emacs for a shell. ...speaking of which, just using xterm is rather interesting - and even found a great wm called "screen" which is just that - a screen - console screen - but you can have unlimited screens (for those that LOVE to be in the console)- ditto with RatPoison...yet another cool low resource wm...(going to try to get OpenLook Virtual Window Manager working on here as well - can't seem to live on a computer without it - nostalgia...) -- Sat Mar 15 11:45:01 EST 2003 11:45:01 up 3:40, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.20, 0.25 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I'd rather laugh with the sinners, Than cry with the saints, The sinners are much more fun! -- Billy Joel, "Only The Good Die Young"
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