topic title: 2 more questions (SOLVED)
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rust collector
Joined: 27 Dec 2011
#46
Ok, in a terminal, you can type

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 wallpaper.py
then set it to no wallpaper. it might help a tiny bit.
Then login to icewm, not rox-icewm, or jwm, or whatever you want.

If nothing else, just to see how much difference it makes.
The conky is neat too, but not very useful after you cover it with a window......
Posts: 150
rjm65
Joined: 20 Jan 2014
#47
rust collector wrote:Ok, in a terminal, you can type

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 wallpaper.py
then set it to no wallpaper. it might help a tiny bit.
Then login to icewm, not rox-icewm, or jwm, or whatever you want.

If nothing else, just to see how much difference it makes.
The conky is neat too, but not very useful after you cover it with a window......
Did that minus the desktop background works good ram is way down around 38 megs when it boots to desktop it was 68 megs originally, the 30 meg savings is awesome thanks guys all of you.....
nadir
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nadir
#48
rjm65 wrote:In case anyone else has a low end machine like me I ran each browser and loaded msn.com in each and then did a ps_mem.py and i now know what each browser uses of your ram. netsurf is the lowest it uses 24 megs ram Iceape uses 48 megs ram Midori uses 55 megs ram and Iceweasel was way up there using 69 megs ram.

I will try now removing stuff but I did find a 128 meg chip really cheap on ebay so I ordered it for the old machine now it will be maxed out at 192 megs rather then 128, there is 64 megs of ram hard soldered to the motherboard and the expansion slot has a 64 meg chip in it now soon to be 128 meg... the extra 64 megs should help me out some on this old machine....
I got similar machines. raspberrie's (with 256 RAM) and Pentium 3's
netsurf is ok for browsing. midori offers more comfort, but is really too slow for longtime usage.
I think"dillo" is included in antiX too? Anyway: worth to look at (more ugly than netsurf, but pretty fast).
AntiX also includes terminal web-browsers which use the mouse-input anyway (i forgot the name, sorry, perhaps elinks).

In my experience a little more of RAM can help a lot with such machines. Going for more is a good decision.

Good result, btw (down to ~30 MB).
Posts: 150
rjm65
Joined: 20 Jan 2014
#49
rust collector wrote:I think you need to edit your ~/.jwmrc file, I do not remember if that was split up into sub-files or not. But they are hidden files in your home.
In a file manager, press ctrl + h to see them
I went back to JWM and i would like to remove that icon for iceweasel off the taskbar...
Also I would like to replace it with netsurf....
I found the file you mentioned above but there was nothing inside it that i could see pertaining to taskbar icons....
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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#50
Try ~/.jwm/toolbar (or maybe taskbar?) cannot remember exactly
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#51
Its in ~/.jwm/tray .
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rjm65
Joined: 20 Jan 2014
#52
dolphin_oracle wrote:Its in ~/.jwm/tray .
Got it thanks guys i just changed every line that said iceweasel to netsurf and left the icon there now instead of doing nothing when you click on it, now it opens netsurf....

ok i seen someone mention startx over slim how do I do that, and am I going to like it... LOL __{{emoticon}}__
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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#53
At the end of your ~/.bashrc you could place something like

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if [ -z $DISPLAY ] ; then
    startx ~/.xinitrc jwm;
fi
And remove slim.
Iirc it is -z but it might be -n? Try it out, one way it will start x the other will just leave you at the cli.
That way you will be prompted for username and password at the cli and when you type it in logging on it should Automatically startx as well as allow you to open a terminal without trying to startx over and over again. However if you do want to use the cli as your user than you will need to comment that out of your bashrc. Another option to that is to make that little additional piece ask if you would like to use x or the cli.... something like

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if [ -z $DISPLAY ] ; then
    echo"default start jwm"
    echo"1) cli"
    echo"2) jwm"
    echo"3) icewm"
    read"what would you like to do?" ans
    case $ans in
    1)
        echo"staying in cli"
    ;;
    2)
        startx ~/.xinitrc jwm 
    ;;
    3)
        startx ~/.xinitrc icewm;
    ;;
    *)
        startx ~/.xinitrc jwm 
    ;;
    esac
fi
That way you can choose another option or just press enter for the default (start jwm)
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jdmeaux1952
Joined: 01 Nov 2013
#54
rjm65 wrote: good ram is way down around 38 megs when it boots to desktop it was 68 megs originally, the 30 meg savings is awesome thanks guys all of you.....
That's great job getting rid of 38 megs. Now that's lean and mean.
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rjm65
Joined: 20 Jan 2014
#55
jdmeaux1952 wrote:
rjm65 wrote: good ram is way down around 38 megs when it boots to desktop it was 68 megs originally, the 30 meg savings is awesome thanks guys all of you.....
That's great job getting rid of 38 megs. Now that's lean and mean.
I just wanted everyone to know how much I appreciate all your help and suggestions...
I ordered and installed the biggest ram chip my machine can handle, which has given me an extra 64 megs of ram then what it originally had before... The machine is now maxed out at 192 megs of ram, 64 megs is soldered to the motherboard, and they have 1 mini dimm expansion slot that will take 128 megs max, the total is 192 megs minus 8 megs for the shared video... The running total when I boot up now is 28 megs used to get to the desktop of 184 total ram.... thanks guys the machine is usable once more....