> From: "OFFRAY LUNA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 21 Jan 2002 21:27:59 -0500
>
> Hi Mohamed,
>
> Yes, you will find usefull to swicht to another desktop enviroment as
> IceWM in order to reduce the load of the server.
>
> I would probe making a custom config of IceWM to solve the most of the
> taks of the users (launch StarOffice, etc) and then I would make this
> custom IceWM as the default desktop and I would see the load of the
> server.
I suppose I should mention to anyone using IceWM with LTSP that I've
written a couple little scripts to improve the experience. One thing
that the new KDE and Gnome have which is nice is the application startup
feedback (like Windows' "busy" cursor, but they have many more ways of
showing it). This lets users know that their application is starting so
they don't go and click the button 20 more times. The feedback script
runs out of another script which creates lockfiles to suppress multiple
launches. The URL is
http://www.uniqsys.com/~jbechtel/tk_start.tgz
And for anyone NOT running public access terminals (library, kiosk,
internet cafe) I have also written a pop-up window for use with IceWM's
built-in email notifier. It includes a button to launch netscape mail
(replace command with whatever is appropriate for your users) directly
from the notification window. The URL is
http://www.uniqsys.com/~jbechtel/tk_newmail.tgz
> You can try also disable memory intensive apps like screen savers.
Actually, I don't think screen savers are so memory intensive as they
are bandwidth intensive. Unless you are running them local to the
clients, you should *NEVER* use screen savers with your terminals. They
will drop your network to its knees.
Good luck!
Jason
PS: Last time I checked, KDE and Gnome were both at around 25MB
resident memory per session and IceWM was at 1.4MB.
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