Do you mean ctrl+atl+F1, ctrl+atl+arrow or uninstalling Gnome and installing something else? If you are uninstalling Gnome, I would kill X, aka the death of Linux, and use apt to install the different Desktop environment.
Chris... On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have a question about switching desktops. If I switch my desktop to > a different desktop, does ubuntu write the desktop that I am > navigating away from to swap so that the memory is freed up? I have > limited ram on my ubuntu desktop. Only 512Mb. So I'm wondering if the > memory is freed up (for the most part) from the desktop I'm leaving, > and made available to the desktop that I am navigating to. > > Thanks > Paul > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
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