slightly off topic Once upon a time Ron Johnson wrote @ 12 May 2003 11:11:43 -0500 > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 09:07, Adam Kessel wrote: > > I originally enabled both xfs and xfs-xtt in an effort to get OpenOffice > > to render properly. All of the smart quotes were coming out as ?'s, and > > like many others here I just banged away at it until I got it to work. > > > > I've got this running on a P1 class machine with 96M RAM, however, which > > as you might imagine is excruciatingly slow. So if I can get rid of these > > things and still have OO render properly, that will be great. > > Gak! That's one reason your box is so slow... > I'm using a cyrix 6x86mx here + 92 MB RAM i didn'y use OOo, but i'm not using an xfs > > Moving slightly off topic... are there other ways to optimize XF86Config > > for low-end machines? I would like to have the bare minimum set up that > > still works properly, and I wonder if there are other parts of the X > > configuration that might be bringing down my system. > > Don't know about configuring XFree, but using machine-friendly apps sure > will help. I'm using pekwm+hpanel+aswvdial sylpheed claws+phoenix 0.5 multi-gnome-terminal i was running kde3 a few days ago, and gnome 2.2 run fine here Check your startup daemons. I have a SiS 5597/5598 video card > > - What window manager are you using? (I like xfce, because it is easier > to config than iceWM and the other slim WMs. > > - Never use GNOME 2.x or KDE 3.x apps. > > - A video card that has good 2D h/w acceleration drivers under X. > Personally, I think the NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 with the nv driver is > perfect for this. > > - Do you need MS Word/Excel compatibility? If not, try Lyx, a GUI > front end to latex which is very resource-light. > > - How about email? mutt or pine are about as light as you can get. > If you like GUI, Sylpheed is great. > > -- > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net | > | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | > | | > | The purpose of the military isn't to pay your college tuition | > | or give you a little extra income; it's to "kill people and | > | break things". Surprisingly, not everyone understands that. | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast "Brian Kernighan".
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