On 10/13/05, Peter Loron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question for the hive mind: can you run a front-end with no window > manager? I've got an Xbox frontend, and it takes bloody forever to start > up Xebian (1.1.1 in my case) and then launch Myth. Doing things in Myth > is sloooooow, especially when it needs to spawn mplayer to watch a > video, etc. I'm assuming most of that slowness is releated to the lack > of RAM and the copious amounts of swapping that are consequently going on. > > Can one run the frontend with no WM to save RAM? If so, can somebody > point me to the step-by -step? I searched on gossamer, but was unable to > come up with any definitive answers.
I'm not that familiar with Xebian, so I don't know what's possible. What I'd do is keep a window manager (the consensus seems that not have one is a bigger problem due to focus issues) and try out some lightweight WM's. I suggest ratpoison, it doesn't get any lighter than that. Josh _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
