Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:54:56 +0200
Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:49:57 +0300
> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:23:27 +0200
> > Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:26 +0300
> > > Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:22:40 +0200
> > > > Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:54:12 -0600
> > > > > Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <jevv.cr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Just keep in mind also fluxbox for your wm trials, its light
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> > >
> >
> > Continuing from my previous email, another thing that may work instead
> > is adding the line
> >
> > Option "XkbVariant" "latin,"
> >
> > to your keyboard section in the XF86Config-4 file
> >
> > BTW, if another email I sent on this thread got lost (I replied to a
> > sent message) for light tabbed terminals try multi-aterm and
> > mrxvt(-mini). They are very similar. multi-aterm has a bit nicer
> > scrollbar that works with the scroll wheel and color icons, mrxvt
> > looks exectly the same except for monochrome icons and athena (very
> > simple) scrollbar. I tried mrxvt- mini and it seems very light (about
> > 1.5M with one tab around 2M with 10). mrxvt seems more stable then
> > multi-aterm and the tabs seems to behave better (size is more correct
> > and the second tab in multi-aterm doesn't seem to appear correctly)
> >
> > I may just switch from screen as it saves a Meg and scrolls better.
>
> Hi
>
> Wow, good call, I shall say. I installed both, and they are both
> outstanding. They give the same, and more as Xterm, and less the memory.
> For me the RES column shows 8MB usage for Xterm single window, and 4.5MB
> for a single window mrxvt, and 4MB for a triple tab open multi-aterm. So
> I settled for aterm multi, as I can use the scroll Jogdial in my Vaio
> notebook. Yes, when I open another tab, I cannot see the TAB's tag at
> the top, but it will show up in about 5-10 seconds, and I can do without
> it for that little while.
>
> Great find again, 4MB more reduced, and able to get a multi-session
> console. Great great stuff.
I looked at it further and apparently they are the same thing. materm was
renamed to mrxvt due to name clashes. I recompiled the mrxvt-mini version with
rxvt scroll-bar support and mousewheel support. If you are using the regular
mrxvt then you can start it with the -ss rxvt option to get a better scrollbar
(mrxvt*scrollbarStyle: rxvt in ~/.Xresources or settings file)
For the moment I have switch to use it instead of screen.
>
> Bence
> >
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