On Sun, February 17, 2013 4:00 am, Chris Bannister wrote: > [No need to include me in the reply, I'm subscribed to the list] Unfortunately, this list does not add a replyto: field so the only way of getting things to the list is with reply all.... or spend time messing with all the header fields. > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:30:45PM -0800, Len Ovens wrote: >> >> On Sat, February 16, 2013 10:23 pm, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > Also my comment was just pointing out that if you have synaptic >> > installed you can't honestly claim that you have a "truly minimum >> > desktop" >> >> ?? Synaptic is an app, like Ardour is an app. It is nor really a part of >> the desktop. The desktop is that pile of apps that are started at login >> and stop at logoff... They are running all the time. The update manager >> is >> a different story. > > Some people consider the desktop to *be* the system, so I was just going > along with that premise. You can choose to just have a window manager, > (e.g. fvwm) instead of a DE to be even more lean. I'm referring to > diskspace and unnecesary resources when I talk about a minimum desktop. I guess from my POV, disk space is somewhat less precious than memory/cpu time (ei. running resources). This does not make my POV right though. I am running right now on a 40G USB drive which is sort of mid-range these days for an SD drive (this one is mechanical not an SD) and space is not really an issue. Fvwm is one of my favourites. I am using xfce right now (I am testing for Ubuntu Studio)and thinking about what auto started apps I can get rid of. I don't need a file manager for a back ground for example, as I have icons turned off on my desktop (can't see them most of the time anyway). I don't need auto mounters running as I don't ever want something to auto mount while I am doing audio work. I do like the panel for a main menu (there is not always some visible desktop to right click on) and the window buttons space. I only have one monitor and so multi work spaces and a switcher and systray round out my needs/wants. I guess in theory, once X is running all that is needed is an xterm. In fact that used to be the standard when I started (and 4M of ram was $400... and it took 8m to run X). One of the microvax systems I used at work was this way, an xterm and the app menu was what showed up. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
