Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?
On 10/17/2013 12:59 PM, Dmitrii Kashin wrote:
> 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.
>
I have always used rcconf myself, nice little ncurses app.
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