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Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?



Helmut Wollmersdorfer <helmut.wollmersdorfer@fixpunkt.de> writes:

> 2) repartition and fresh install of Squeze + Gnome2
>
> With Gnome2 I was very happy and the PC was good performing.
>
> 3) Upgrade to Wheezy + Gnome3
>
> Ooops. Not performing on this hardware good enough, too often reaching
> the limits.
>
> But even worse is the bad usability of Gnome3.
>
> That's why I tried 
>
> 4) Install XFCE without removing Gnome, because I need the convenience
> of the network-manager (I use the netbook in a dozen different
> locations/networks)
>
> It's still slow.

I guess a lot of Gnome's services are still started with your graphical
environment, and they overload your machine.

You can use sysv-rc-conf to make unnecessary services not to start.

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