On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sunday, December 02, 2012 00:55:11, Jack Chastain wrote: > > Y'all probably know I recently put Ubuntu 12.04 on my aging Dell > recently. > > Happy over all, but there are a few small issues. > (snip) > > I did a little research on memory use under Ubuntu and mostly find older > > posts. I am not sure if there is anything I can tune to reduce overall > > memory use, but if anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear. > > As I suspect Unity is the issue, I'd recommend trying another Window > Manager / > Desktop Environment to test if this is the case. [This is safe to do; > Unity > will remain installed and will be available unless you expressly remove > it.] > > For starters I'd specfically recommend Xfce4. Ubuntu by default comes with > the "Ubuntu Software Center" -- within that type "xfce4" in the search > field > and install the packages "xfce4" and "xfce4-goodies". You can look through > the other "xfce4-" packages for anything else you might want, but those two > packages alone will be enough for a usable Xfce4 session. I tested this > in an > Ubuntu 12.04 test VM, the only snag was a window opened in the background > /under/ the Ubutnu Software Center which was holding up the install while > it > asked a question whether to start a hard disk monitoring daemon at > startup, to > which I said "no". Once the install is done you can either log out or > reboot. > > Next time you're at the X login screen, press the Ubuntu icon next to your > username, and choose "Xfce session", and log in. > > Do everything else you would normally do -- use Chromium and whatnot -- and > see if the RAM starts getting eaten up the same way or not. > Cool - I will probably try this a little later today - maybe have a few questions for the meeting tomorrow. My first task for today though is ti try and force reset that blasted Netgear device. If I survive that, I will wreck the rest of my day changing the Ubuntu workspace ;-) > > > > > One basic question though - how do I edit the command line call for the > > icon within the Unity tab-bar? I can edit an icon on the workspace, but > > can't see how to get to it on the bar. I want to set the > > --purge-memory-button flag. > > I'm able to get the terminal into the Ubuntu menu, but I'm not able to > figure > out how to do this either (yet). > > Woohoo!! I love it when it is not just me being stupid! It usually is that. *grin* I suppose this isn't really a critical issue, as I am quite well able to create a desktop icon and edit THAT command line call - and if I do change the workspace, then it is probably moot in any event. JC -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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