Re: Slow program opening, installation size and window tiling
James J. Hamlin wrote:
> The first question and the easiest is this: Is there a way to
> tile windows automatically? In ms windows I can click on the
> taskbar and select 'tile windows horizontally' or 'tile windows
> vertically'. I sure would like to be able to do this in KDE
> but I have yet to find a way.
Window menu -- try click with right eye of the mouse on the
desktop.
> Third question: It seems like the basic install of sarge with
> KDE is taking up almost 1.7 GB. This seems like an awfully big
> footprint. So I'm looking for ways to get rid of things that I
> don't need. So I was looking into getting rid of say the kde
> games package. But when I look around in the package manager
> (synaptics) I find that the kde games package is a dependency
> of the kde entertainments package which is in turn
> a dependency of the kde package. So, it's looking to me like I
> can't remove the games without removing kde completely. I must
> be wrong... right?
I don't use synaptics (aptitude is my choice), but you can
certainly (somehow) remove kde package without any package on
which it depends. So instead of
kde
+------------+----*----+------------+
| | | |
kdepim kdelibs kdegames kdenetwork
you will have just
| | | |
kdepim kdelibs kdegames kdenetwork
as individual packages, which you can then remove. BTW, take a
look whether you don't have installed whole GNOME (I did with
plain Sarge), it is basically as big as KDE and mostly
unecessary.
> Also, I know this is the KDE list but, does anyone have an
> opinion as to whether I need gnome on my computer?
GNOME is a first choice for removal. If you need some programs
which you need from GNOME (don't worry they can happily work
even with KDE as your desktop; in my case it is GNUCash what I
need), then you will have just very small subset of GNOME not
whole thing. Check also for server programs (like mysql,
postgresql, apache) -- they may take an awfully lot of the
programs.
Welcome on board!
Matej
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